Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky … Obama!
Posted on | April 30, 2012 | 40 Comments
Yes, comrades, they all share the same slogan: “Forward!”
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. . . .
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. . . .
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.
A Memeorandum thread, with commentary by Gateway Pundit, American Thinker, Jammie Wearing Fools, Hot Air, The Jawa Report, The Lonely Conservative, Weasel Zippers, and Joel Pollak at Breitbart.com.
(Hat-tip to Victor Morton on Twitter.)

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