text: Once and for all, we have to stop using the term "progressive" to describe people who follow the NDP, or perhaps the Liberal party.
  
  Either that, or change the definition of the word progressive.
  
  The NYT had an article reviewing a book some time ago, and stated that a Marxist professor in the middle of the last century coined the "modern" use of the word to describe extreme leftist (hardly what I think most Liberal, and some NDP members believe) ideology, in order to make it more "salable" (think on that one for a while...sales, etc)..