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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.

Victor Morton, The Washington Times 35 Comments [5/10/2012 3:36:14 AM]
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#1401004
Leighton Buzzard

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves.

5/10/2012 4:18:14 AM
#1401006
Leighton Buzzard

Not to mention, Silvio Berlusconi is a socialist?

5/10/2012 4:19:35 AM
#1401018
Reynardine

And the Washington Times' motto is, *Forward!

5/10/2012 4:36:26 AM
#1401038
Raised by Horses

Mr. Morton, I can't help but notice that you're wearing shoes..

Do you know who else liked to wear shoes? HITLER!

5/10/2012 5:32:04 AM
#1401039
Brendan Rizzo

This is just grasping at straws. If it had been called "Onward", would these people start liking him on the grounds that anyone who uses that term must be a dominionist Christian? Hell no, because he's black. The rest of the civilized world gave up that sort of prejudice 67 years ago.

5/10/2012 5:36:34 AM
#1401082
Extraintrovert

Mr Morton here must have such a hard life, having to analyse literally every single word ever spouted by those of different political beliefs and scan for hidden socialist code. I wonder if he manages to sleep.

5/10/2012 6:31:58 AM
#1401084
Doubting Thomas

Or, it could mean moving forward as in progress instead of stagnating by doing the same old things over and over again like conservatives want to do.

5/10/2012 6:34:00 AM
#1401090
ChakatBlackstar

Uh..."Forward" is also the motto of Wisconsin. It has been since 1848.

5/10/2012 6:41:08 AM
#1401112
J. James

It was also pointed out that "Forward" was used in a Nixon campaign as well. It's generic. It carries no deeper meaning, aside from implications that we need to move "forward" and leave petty politics behind.

5/10/2012 7:20:20 AM
#1401131
Joe Mama

Since when do Marxists have a copyright on the word forward? I'd much rather move forward with Obama than regress back to the 1950's with any of the Republicans.

5/10/2012 7:52:53 AM
#1401150
Flah

You tell them, Victor! That's why I always drive my car in reverse! None of that Marxist forward shit for me!

5/10/2012 8:29:25 AM
#1401186
JB Mason

Regress! Regress!

5/10/2012 10:53:04 AM
#1401192
Skyknight

@JB Mason: Not so much "regression" as "stasis". To allude to Doubting Thomas's point, they don't think it's POSSIBLE to move past unalloyed capitalism, rather that it's the most perfect and just system possible in this universe (and maybe the multiverse...? If you're L. Neil Smith, anyway.). It doesn't help that they don't believe in congenital (i.e. blameless) weakness. I still don't get why people think that strength is a virtue in and of itself. Probably how racists manage to think that skin color is a virtue in and of itself.


5/10/2012 11:12:35 AM
#1401249
GodLovesMurderers

His supposed quote from wikipedia is nowhere to be found on the actual site, or any site. What, do they just make this shit up? The fuck's wrong with these people?

5/10/2012 2:00:22 PM
#1401329
ScrappyB

Well, since Victor is against the word, it means he must be backward, right?

5/10/2012 9:33:18 PM
#1401347
Ebon

Pretty much every word in the English language has been associated with someone or other.

5/11/2012 12:04:15 AM
#1401358
gaijinlaw

"Forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!”

5/11/2012 2:02:01 AM
#1401373
Leighton Buzzard

@ GodLovesMurderers: it was there, but has been deleted. It's not beyond the bounds of possibility that it was created solely for the purpose of supporting the article.

5/11/2012 3:37:51 AM
#1401407
Danarth

Communism, Marxist, Marxism, Socialism.

All words Victor very likely doesn't understand.

I'd be surprised if he knows where Europe even is.

5/11/2012 5:42:46 AM
#1401580
Zagen30

@Danarth: Europe's that country with all the Commie Marxist Nazi Socialist people, right?

5/11/2012 3:52:50 PM
#1401669
werewolf

I always knew the Army command of "Forward, march!" was Marxist and, worse, European.


5/11/2012 10:14:35 PM
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There's also a loooong list of US Miltary divisions who use "Forward" or some variation with the word forward in it as their slogans, so you just slapped your beloved military in the face, Victor.

5/12/2012 10:14:04 AM
#1401771
aaa

Is this what passes as journalism these days?

5/12/2012 12:07:53 PM
#1401811
Percy Q. Shunn

Hmmm, I looked it up and my Wiki page for the word "forward" didn't have one shred of what you claimed. Maybe my computer machine is woefully inadequate.

5/12/2012 4:54:14 PM
#1401855
Tatsukun

I think it matches the GOP's 2012 slogan of "Backwards!" pretty well.

5/12/2012 8:39:04 PM
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