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Many of his friends there were idealistic, progressive — ideological misfits in Reagan's America.
More importantly, as Sarah Lotz says, they're also suggesting SF has been hijacked by a conspiracy of "social justice warriors" or "SJWs", intent on filling the genre with progressive ideological propaganda.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, suspicious of British and French imperialism and eager to cultivate a progressive ideological outlook, was critical of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's politics, hostile toward Charles de Gaulle's, but surprisingly tolerant of Joseph Stalin's.
He was often on the front lines, fighting eloquently for the under-represented, never losing sight of his progressive ideological bearings, whether working outside the system with student, civil rights, and anti-war movements in the Sixties or, years later, on the inside as a member of the California Legislature.
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"African literature suffered from some kind of ideological spasm in which the younger generation was bombarded by a sense of ideological duty, in other words it was bombarded with a very simplistic notion by leftist radical writers, very reformative revolutionary thinkers, that all literature is ideological and therefore writers must ensure that their writing illustrates progressive ideologies".
If being a progressive required ideological purism, I would have to abscond to a yurt in nature, grow my own crops, make my own clothes, and never list that yurt on Airbnb as a romantic getaway in the woods.
It's not over, never has been -- not for the aging liberals and progressives whose ideological underpinnings in Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal were torn asunder by the case; not for the scholars still skirmishing in culture wars over the impact of domestic Communism; and certainly not for the sons, Hobson and Hiss.
Yet the backlash to President Trump's divisive politics has also fueled a demand by the party's progressive wing for ideological purity and more diverse representation, a tension that could reshape what it means to be a Democrat.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this story stated incorrectly that the Congressional Progressive Caucus has ideological prerequisites for membership.
"Ilya as a very persistent ideological progressive could've probably done more in the state senate in the next years than he can in a hyper-polarized Congress," said Ilyse Hogue, a former top MoveOn official who knows Sheyman.
The uprising has become the stuff of lore among Iranian and feminist historians, as it challenges popularly-held notions that the country lacks a feminist or progressive political and/or ideological presence.
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