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2012-05-01 -Election 2012
New Obama slogan has long ties to Marxism, socialism
The Obama campaign apparently didn't look backwards into history when selecting its new campaign slogan, "Forward" -- a word with a long and rich association with European Marxism.
No coincidence that MS-NBC also incorporates it...
Many Communist and radical publications and entities throughout the 19th and 20th centuries had the name "Forward!" or its foreign cognates. Wikipedia has an entire section called "Forward (generic name of socialist publications)."

"The name Forward carries a special meaning in socialist political terminology. It has been frequently used as a name for socialist, communist and other left-wing newspapers and publications," the online encyclopedia explains.

The slogan "Forward!" reflected the conviction of European Marxists and radicals that their movements reflected the march of history, which would move forward past capitalism and into socialism and communism.

The Obama campaign released its new campaign slogan Monday in a 7-minute video. The title card has simply the word "Forward" with the "O" having the familiar Obama logo from 2008. It will be played at rallies this weekend that mark the Obama re-election campaign's official beginning.

There have been at least two radical-left publications named "Vorwaerts" (the German word for "Forward"). One was the daily newspaper of the Social Democratic Party of Germany whose writers included Friedrich Engels and Leon Trotsky. It still publishes as the organ of Germany's SDP, though that party has changed considerably since World War II. Another was the 1844 biweekly reader of the Communist League. Karl Marx, Engels and Mikhail Bakunin are among the names associated with that publication.

Vladimir Lenin founded the publication "Vpered" (the Russian word for "forward") in 1905. Soviet propaganda film-maker Dziga Vertov made a documentary whose title is sometimes translated as "Forward, Soviet" (though also and more literally as "Stride, Soviet").

Conservative critics of the Obama administration have noted numerous ties to radicalism and socialists throughout Mr. Obama's history, from his first political campaign being launched from the living room of two former Weather Underground members, to appointing as green jobs czar Van Jones, a self-described communist.
Posted by Steve White 2012-05-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 Projection rules.
Posted by DarthVader 2012-05-01 00:10||   2012-05-01 00:10|| Front Page Top

#2 If "Forward" failed every time in history where it has been tried, does this not make it "BackWard"?

Mindless twits.
Posted by newc 2012-05-01 00:35||   2012-05-01 00:35|| Front Page Top

#3 How intriguing, the rhetoric and slogans of communism.... adopted by communists.
Posted by Besoeker 2012-05-01 01:37||   2012-05-01 01:37|| Front Page Top

#4 "Swirling the Bowl" was already taken?
Posted by SteveS 2012-05-01 03:43||   2012-05-01 03:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, if you look forward, you don't see certain people's record.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-05-01 05:10||   2012-05-01 05:10|| Front Page Top

#6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward

Politics

Forward (generic name of socialist publications)

Forward (Greenland), a social democratic political party in Greenland

Kadima (Hebrew for forward), an Israeli political party

Socialist league VPERED, a Russian political party


There are three that are openly socialist and Kadima which the wikipedia rates as centrist and liberal. I would say 3 out of 4.
Posted by BernardZ 2012-05-01 07:02||   2012-05-01 07:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Great Lean Forward™
Posted by Frank G 2012-05-01 07:42||   2012-05-01 07:42|| Front Page Top

#8 An awkward, unnecessary, and unwarrented sexual advance.

Urban Dictionary has a better one:
Going Forward:
Overused buzzwords used mainly in the corporate world.
These unnecessary words are consistently used to denote something new in a company; be it a policy or a procedure.
Their use is totally fucking stupid, since there is no way to start using new procedures in the past. These words are filler and an example of verbal diarrhea.
Posted by swksvolFF 2012-05-01 10:05||   2012-05-01 10:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Forward? To where? Over the cliff?
Posted by JohnQC 2012-05-01 10:28||   2012-05-01 10:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Training going 80 towards the bridge that's down. No Mickey Rooney (The Young Thomass Edison) to save the day.
Posted by jack salami 2012-05-01 10:41||   2012-05-01 10:41|| Front Page Top

#11 Foreward, into the valley of death....comes to mind.
Posted by Muggsy Glink 2012-05-01 11:04||   2012-05-01 11:04|| Front Page Top

#12 Its been done before...

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2012-05-01 11:07||   2012-05-01 11:07|| Front Page Top

#13 Stupid progressives. Sideways would be a huge improvement.
Posted by RandomJD 2012-05-01 12:01||   2012-05-01 12:01|| Front Page Top

#14 Also, every Wisconsin kid -- even those of us up in the northwoods sticks -- grew up knowing this was the one-word state motto.

And it was set in place *way* before the socialist mayors had their run "down there in the big cities." ;-)
Posted by ExtremeModerate 2012-05-01 12:03||   2012-05-01 12:03|| Front Page Top

#15 Stupid progressives. Sideways would be a huge improvement.

So much so that if we manage to add another 30k jobs in a month we start touting it as a recovery.
Posted by gorb 2012-05-01 12:10||   2012-05-01 12:10|| Front Page Top

#16 Forwarned!
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2012-05-01 13:33||   2012-05-01 13:33|| Front Page Top

#17 Forward
Posted by newc 2012-05-01 16:12||   2012-05-01 16:12|| Front Page Top

#18 What's next from Obama, Tomorrow Belongs To Me?
Posted by OldSpook 2012-05-01 17:13||   2012-05-01 17:13|| Front Page Top

#19 Whatever happened to the famous 'WTF."
or was that too hard to spell?
Posted by USN,Ret 2012-05-01 20:10||   2012-05-01 20:10|| Front Page Top

#20 Huh. I am strangely reminded of this.
Posted by Angie Schultz 2012-05-01 20:33||   2012-05-01 20:33|| Front Page Top

#21 There are local democrats if office all over, who are going to be defeated by this slogan. Obama and his campaign does not owe me an apology, I never liked the guy. Obama and his campaign owe an apology to the democrats in public office trying to survive his insanity.
Posted by whatadeal 2012-05-01 21:47||   2012-05-01 21:47|| Front Page Top

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