Analysis of Evolution of Progressivism

With the demise of Soviet socialism and the end of the Cold War,Francis Fukuyama,a RAND analyst and Robert L.Heilbroner, an economic historian,pronounced the end of history and victory of capitalism separately.Then theories of the end rampantly sprang out.Among those theories, Eisuke Sakakibara asserted that the end is not history,but progressivism.This paper deals with the evolution of the larger-sense progressivism: the idea of changes during the ancient Greece,the ideal for other world and absolute goodness in the Mediaeval Era,the rise of modern progressivism and its development and crisis since the 20th century.Throughout the evolution of the larger-sense progressivism or the progressive ideology,the author concludes that,theoretically,progressivism embodies versatile forms and practically,it forms the world history,and that the end is not progressivism,but a version of progressivism.