Tag: liberal progressive

It is a label used by a number of candidates in Canadian elections between 1925 and 1953. In federal and Ontario politics, there was no Liberal-Progressive party: it was an alliance between two parties. In Manitoba, a party existed with this name. In the USA, there have been notable liberal and progressive key figures that have been in the same party (Democratic) against the conservatives (Republican). Though there hasn't been a lot who is both, or at least not a lot of them have been comfortable being labelled as such since it would be a little confusing an exhausting too. The American modern liberal philosophy strongly endorses public spending on programs such as education, health care and welfare. But then, liberalism has deep internal tensions primarily between the claims of equality and those of liberty arising from its equal commitment to both these principles. The tensions are held by some thinkers who are not well-disposed towards liberalism to be contradictions that prevent liberalism from living up to its own principles. Also, it is worth noting that liberalism is a weak form of nationalism developed together. Liberalism was a way of organizing society for the benefit of its members in a manner that promoted, better than any alternative, the society's harmony, prosperity, and power in a world of independent states. The nation here is just the collection of people organized in a state and thereby sharing common interests in their peace, prosperity, and power.