ABSTRACT
This chapter examines ideas of progress among Norwegian socialists prior to World War II, with particular emphasis on the 1930s. It argues, first, that ideas of progress constituted an essential element of socialist imaginations during this period; second, that in response to the rise of Nazism in Germany, socialists substituted voluntarist notions of progress for previous deterministic ideas; and third, that racist ideas among socialists cannot be understood without attention to how ideas of progress impacted upon nearly every aspect of socialist imaginations.
