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The Future of American Progressivism: An Initiative for by Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Cornel West

By Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Cornel West

Returning to the main primary target of democracy - the conclusion of the opportunity of all electorate - and drawing at the better of the yankee innovative culture, the authors problem the commonly held assumption that it really is most unlikely to stimulate fiscal progress and while warrantly chance and at least assets for all electorate. Seizing the quintessentially American concept that every little thing is feasible, Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Cornel West argue that we will use it to reinvent our public associations. whereas they suggest particular reforms in company, taxation, social safeguard, and schooling, their software is a picture of yankee political and civic lifestyles as an important, evolving, and hopeful area for fixing our collective difficulties.

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Thus arises, inthe United States today, an oppressive contrast between the vitality and greatness of the country and the littleness and deadness of its public life . THE RECENT PAST OF AMERICAN PROGRESSIVISM 55 CH REORIEN SSIVISM The work of American progressivism today is to democratize the market economy and energize representative democracy. Progressives should build the link between economic reforms designed to challenge the stark divisions between vanguards and rearguards, and political reforms intended to quicken democratic politics in America .

INSTITUTIONAL EXPERIMENTS AND AMERICAN HOPES 27 28 THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN PROGRESSIVISM Institutional innovation is equally important to the other element in the American religion of possibility: the habit of problem solving. Americans have traditionally gone about solving problems one at a time. They have been distrustful of the idea that their problems at any given moment fit together into a single scheme. Thus, the temper of American progressive movements has been simple and sincere: majorities against minorities, poor against rich, powerless against powerful.

In some key ways, these effects are as dangerous as they are useful. Racial discrimination has diminished in every realm ofAmerican life and every region of the United States since the age of Jim Crow, especially the South. Blacks have been joined by Latinos and other marginalized groups in their struggle and their advancement . A black bourgeoisie has grown and begun to prosper. However, the benefits of the antidiscrimination programs have been enjoyed in inverse proportion to need, reaching the black professional and business class more than the black working class, and the black working class more than the black underclass.

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