“The phrase “looking forward” is a favorite of the left, because they want the past forgotten.”
At this point, what does it matter.
Exactly.
In bourgeois society … the past dominates the present; in communist society, the present dominates the past.The “never-ending present in which the Party is always right” is not fiction; all left-wing leaders are trying to bring it into reality and get “the masses” to be lost in the present. That guarantees the past to come roaring back in a colossal way.
— Communist Manifesto, chapter 2
Those that cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
— George Santayana