Progressivism on the 12 Axes

The term first described the American Progressive Era of roughly 1890 to 1920, when reformers such as Theodore Roosevelt, Jane Addams and Robert La Follette fought corruption, child labor and monopolies, and women won the vote. In later decades progressivism came to center on civil rights, feminism, LGBT rights, environmental protection and criminal justice reform, and today the label is used across the Americas and Europe. Progressives see society as improvable and tradition as open to revision when it causes harm. Their focus is social and cultural change more than a fixed economic system, which distinguishes them from democratic socialism. Compared with social liberalism they are more willing to challenge established customs and institutions, and compared with social democracy they put less emphasis on the labor movement.

• Social Democracy 83%Social democracy accepts a market economy and parliamentary democracy but uses taxes, strong unions, regulation and a broad welfare state to reduce inequality and protect workers.
• Social Liberalism 82%Social liberalism holds that individual freedom requires real opportunity, so it pairs a market economy and civil liberties with public education, healthcare and social insurance.
• Transhumanism 81%Transhumanism is a movement that wants to use science and technology to overcome human limits such as aging, disease and limited intelligence, and to let people enhance themselves.
• Democratic Socialism 81%Democratic socialism aims to replace capitalism with social ownership of the economy, reached and governed through elections, civil liberties and multiparty democracy instead of revolution or one-party rule.