New Obama slogan has long ties to Marxism, socialism

The Washington Times ^ | Victor Morton

[justlittleoleme]

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.

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.

[justlittleoleme]

[Maceman]

[Nifster]

where has this guy been for the last five months??? This has been touted on WND and Newsmax and Townhall for at least that long

[TigersEye]

FIVEWORD!

[bopdowah]

We can’t get rid of this clown soon enough!

[bronxville]

Vorwarts = Forward in German. They had a radical magazine called Vorwarts in 1844. The ‘Great Leap Forward’ was an economic and social campaign of the Communist Party of China led by Mao Zedong. Remember Anita Dunn... Read more: http://godfatherpolitics.com/4992/wikipedia-deletes-president-obamas-new-marxist-campaign-slogan-reference/#ixzz25XebANb2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorw%C3%A4rts!

[bronxville]

http://godfatherpolitics.com/4992/wikipedia-deletes-president-obamas-new-marxist-campaign-slogan-reference/#ixzz25XebANb2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorw%C3%A4rts!

[bronxville]

Vorwarts...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorw%C3%A4rts!

Wiki has played politics with the word “forward” but obviously forgot about the word in German.

[bronxville]

Vorwärts! (German pronunciation: [ˈfɔʁvɛʁts], Forward!) was a biweekly newspaper published in Paris from January to December 1844.[1][2] The journal was seen as "the most radical" in contemporary Europe.[3] The newspaper circulation was about a thousand copies. It had a subtitle Pariser Signale aus Kunst, Wissenschaft, Theater, Musik, Literatur und geselligem Leben (Paris signals from the arts, science, theater, music, literature and social life). From 3 July 1844 the title changed to Vorwärts. Pariser Deutsche Zeitschrift (Forward. Paris German journal). The journal was sponsored by the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer and edited by Karl Ludwig Bernays.[1] The publisher of the journal was Heinrich Börnstein (Henry Boernstein).[1] It was the only uncensored radical paper in the German language published in contemporary Europe.[1] The journal published many polemicists, such as Heinrich Heine, Georg Herwegh, Mikhail Bakunin and Arnold Ruge, many of them German political emigres to France,.[1] Collaborators also included Friedrich Engels, Georg Weerth and Georg Weber. One of those who wrote for it was Karl Marx; he would have an increasingly important role in editing the journal, particularly from the summer of 1844.[2][1] Marx and many others joined Vorwärts! after the closure of Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher.[4] Many of the activists associated with the paper were also related to the German revolutionary socialist group, the Communist League. One of Heine's well known works, "The Song of the Silesian Weavers", premiered in Vorwärts!.[1] The newspaper was critical of the situation in Prussia and was closed in January 1845 after the Prussian king, Friedrich Wilhelm IV, protested at the "outrageous insults and libels" published in the newspaper to the French king, Louis Philippe.[2][5] Marx was expelled from France as part of the resulting commotion, Bernays was imprisoned for two months, and Boernstein made a deal with the authorities.[5][4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorw%C3%A4rts! Posting it here jic...

[bronxville]

Anyone here read German? Sorry the previous post turned out so chaotic.

[jesseam]

Re: New Obama slogan has long ties to Marxism, socialism;

I think it was chose BECAUSE it does have ties to Marxism and
socialism

[Bigg Red]

where has this guy been for the last five months??? This has been touted on WND and Newsmax and Townhall for at least that long

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Not only that, can this writer be that naive to think that this choice of a slogan was not deliberate?

[tina07]

It was a deliberately chosen word by the marxist-in-chief, nothing he does is by accident, all by design.