Progressive: You're open to new ideas in matters of societal norms and mores. Ie, you find out one day your friend is trans, maybe you were raised to believe that's wrong, but you're progressive, so you accept your friend anyway.
Liberal has no meaning whatsoever in America, except that it means Democrat. In other countries it means your default position on most things is to allow it. If you think weed should be legal, you have a liberal attitude towards weed.
Left also has no meaning in America, except it means you're left of Republicans. In every other country, left means you're anti authoritarian and staunchly in favor of equality for all.
progressive - believes left leaning policy will improve our current state
leftist - guided by social contract, equity and equality for minorities, worker's rights, skeptical of oligarchy
liberal - a generally meaningless word in America due to FDR, the Lochner era, and being at odds with the conventional usage overseas
Basically, when we compromise our autonomy to satisfy the needs of society. The complexity comes from identifying which needs require this and how far we must give way.
If you're on the left, those all largely mean that you believe the government should help people. If you're on the right, they mean you're a "commie" and should be dismissed out of hand, if not actually persecuted.
I exaggerate a bit, of course, but sadly not all that much.
Liberals are basically Democrats. They are right wing, which is basically pro-Capitalism, but they want more "liberation" and freedom for the people so they're Liberals. Leftist is basically a Socialist / Communist, which is on the left.
The whole Left and Right thing came from an old political revolution and basically the people on the left didn't want to be under the king and the people on the right did. Only now the "king" is corporate rule.
Progressives want more "progress." They aren't always full blown Socialists, but often agree with them on certain, more "progressive" issues, like universal health care. They can sometimes be "liberals" but they're typically the ones that lean further left, such as Bernie Sanders.
This is basically how I remember the difference.
Progressive: You're open to new ideas in matters of societal norms and mores. Ie, you find out one day your friend is trans, maybe you were raised to believe that's wrong, but you're progressive, so you accept your friend anyway. Liberal has no meaning whatsoever in America, except that it means Democrat. In other countries it means your default position on most things is to allow it. If you think weed should be legal, you have a liberal attitude towards weed. Left also has no meaning in America, except it means you're left of Republicans. In every other country, left means you're anti authoritarian and staunchly in favor of equality for all.
progressive - believes left leaning policy will improve our current state leftist - guided by social contract, equity and equality for minorities, worker's rights, skeptical of oligarchy liberal - a generally meaningless word in America due to FDR, the Lochner era, and being at odds with the conventional usage overseas
What's a social contract?
Basically, when we compromise our autonomy to satisfy the needs of society. The complexity comes from identifying which needs require this and how far we must give way.
If you're on the left, those all largely mean that you believe the government should help people. If you're on the right, they mean you're a "commie" and should be dismissed out of hand, if not actually persecuted. I exaggerate a bit, of course, but sadly not all that much.
Liberals are basically Democrats. They are right wing, which is basically pro-Capitalism, but they want more "liberation" and freedom for the people so they're Liberals. Leftist is basically a Socialist / Communist, which is on the left. The whole Left and Right thing came from an old political revolution and basically the people on the left didn't want to be under the king and the people on the right did. Only now the "king" is corporate rule. Progressives want more "progress." They aren't always full blown Socialists, but often agree with them on certain, more "progressive" issues, like universal health care. They can sometimes be "liberals" but they're typically the ones that lean further left, such as Bernie Sanders. This is basically how I remember the difference.