It's a tough thing to represent correctly. Are these people actually "progressive" or merely wrapping themselves with the image? Though I critique SF all the t

It's a tough thing to represent correctly. Are these people actually "progressive" or merely wrapping themselves with the image? Though I critique SF all the time for not actually being progressive, or left for that matter, at least where it counts for local politics and material effects that could be achieved by their politics before The Revolution, I sometimes think the author has it right. It's better to say that everybody that adopts a label gets to define it. Unless there's a really strong faction with the label that reject the politics of the others, we are left with SF "progressives" being "progressive," even if outsides find them hypocritical and counterproductive to the movement.