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The history of progressive politics is both older than the 20th Century and broader than the United States.
by Veen 10y ago
The history of progressive politics is both older than the 20th Century and broader than the United States.
- spiridon64 10y agoHenri Tolain, George Odger, Keir Hardie, Robert Owen, George Loveless, Giuseppe Mazzini, Benoît Malon or Lloyd Jones and basically most of the early labour right activists were respected members of the society. Even the anarchists of the time like Paul Brousse, Élisée Reclus, César De Paepe, Peter Kropotkin or Tito Zanardelli led relatively normal life, they weren't really "extremist weirdos" apart from having progressive ideas.