Progress
In historical materialism, progress is the development of human society towards a higher mode of production and elimination of declining and backwards traditions and institutions in favor of more advanced ones. Progress is sought by adherents of left-wing politics. What constitutes progress changes with time. For instance, advocating a bourgeois democracy within the context of a feudal monarchy would be a progressive demand, yet to advocate the same in modern capitalist society instead of a socialist democracy would be a reactionary position.[1]
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- ↑ Joseph Stalin (1938). Dialectical and Historical Materialism.
"The demand for a bourgeois-democratic republic when tsardom and bourgeois society existed, as, let us say, in Russia in 1905, was a quite understandable, proper and revolutionary demand; for at that time a bourgeois republic would have meant a step forward. But now, under the conditions of the U.S.S.R., the demand for a bourgeois-democratic republic would be a senseless and counterrevolutionary demand; for a bourgeois republic would be a retrograde step compared with the Soviet republic. Everything depends on the conditions, time and place."