{"id":14540,"date":"2012-05-01T06:59:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T10:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=14540"},"modified":"2012-05-03T16:03:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T20:03:26","slug":"new-obama-slogan-has-long-ties-to-marxism-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2012\/05\/new-obama-slogan-has-long-ties-to-marxism-socialism.html","title":{"rendered":"New Obama slogan has long ties to Marxism, socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Forward - Obama's New Marxist Associated Slogan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Obama campaign apparently didn\u2019t look backwards into history when selecting its new campaign slogan, \u201cForward\u201d \u2014 a word with a long and rich association with European Marxism.\u00a0 (…or did they?)<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Many Communist and radical publications and entities throughout the 19th and 20th centuries had the name \u201cForward!\u201d or its foreign cognates. Wikipedia has an entire section called \u201cForward (generic name of socialist publications).\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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,\u201d the online encyclopedia explains.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

East Germany named its Army soccer club ASK Vorwaerts Berlin (later FC Vorwaerts Frankfort).<\/p>\n

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”).<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

READ MORE<\/strong>:\u00a0 Source: \u00a0The Washington Times<\/strong> – By Victor Morton<\/a> – http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/blog\/inside-politics\/2012\/apr\/30\/new-obama-slogan-has-long-ties-marxism-socialism\/<\/a>
\nSeen Posted also by Cowboy Byte<\/a> on May 1, 2012<\/a> – http:\/\/cowboybyte.com\/7161\/new-obama-slogan-has-long-ties-to-marxism-socialism\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Vorw\u00e4rts Means Forward - First issue of Vorw\u00e4rts, October 1, 1876<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The name Forward<\/strong><\/em> carries a special meaning in socialist political terminology. It has been frequently used as a name for socialist, communist and other leftwing newspapers and publications. For example, Vpered<\/em> (Russian language<\/a> for ‘Forward’) was the name of the publication that Lenin<\/a> started after having resigned from the Iskra<\/a><\/em> editorial board in 1905 after a clash with Georgi Plekhanov<\/a> and the Mensheviks<\/a>.[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Publications named Forward<\/em> (in different languages)<\/h2>\n