reminder that the Progressive movement has been, since the 19th century, a middle-class program of ‘moral uplift’ and paternalistic legislation on behalf of what they saw/see as the poor, unhygenic, and benighted working classes.

compare this to the historical movement for workers power which was/is about self-organization of the working class and battling the imperative of the bosses and their state

to the extent that the interests of progressives and workers aligned from 1890-1947 it was exactly because the former feared the self-activity of the latter. it’s absurd to imagine that a revived workers movement would/could rely on petit-bourg NGOs & politicians to fight for us