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Obama Steals Mao's Slogan
The American Spectator ^ | 5.3.12 @ 6:09AM | Jeffrey Lord

Posted on 05/03/2012 12:28:09 PM PDT by LucyT

Forward!

Comrades, you can't make it up. Can you say "campaign blunder"? Or is it a blunder? Is it deliberate? The socialist mind at work in campaign mode?

The Obama campaign has picked a portion of one of the most infamous socialist slogans of 20th century history to use as its own new campaign slogan.

"Forward" is the new Obama slogan, Team Obama borrowing boldly from none other than the late Communist Party of China leader Chairman Mao.

Mao's slogan? "The Great Leap Forward."

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Education; History
KEYWORDS: 2012; adogineverypot; bhofascism; chairmanmao; forward; karlmarx; nobama2012; obama; obamatruthfile; socialism
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From Wikipedia, also quoted in the article:

The Great Leap Forward (simplified Chinese: 大跃进; traditional Chinese: 大躍進; pinyin: Dà yuè jìn) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social campaign of the Communist Party of China (CPC), reflected in planning decisions from 1958 to 1961, which aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a modern communist society through the process of rapid industrialization and collectivization. Mao Zedong led the campaign based on the Theory of Productive Forces, and intensified it after being informed of the impending disaster from grain shortages.

Chief changes in the lives of rural Chinese included the introduction of a mandatory process of agricultural collectivization, which was introduced incrementally. Private farming was prohibited, and those engaged in it were labeled as counter revolutionaries and persecuted. Restrictions on rural people were enforced through public struggle sessions, and social pressure. Rural industrialization, officially a priority of the campaign, saw "its development … aborted by the mistakes of the Great Leap Forward."

The Great Leap ended in catastrophe, resulting in tens of millions of excess deaths. Estimates of the death toll range from 18 million to 45 million, with estimates by demographic specialists ranging from 18 million to 32.5 million.

Historian Frank Dikötter asserts that "coercion, terror, and systematic violence were the very foundation of the Great Leap Forward" and it "motivated one of the most deadly mass killings of human history."

In contrast, journals such as the Monthly Review have disputed the reliability of the figures commonly cited, the qualitative evidence of a "massive death toll", and Mao's complicity in those deaths which occurred.

Read more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

1 posted on 05/03/2012 12:28:22 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: LucyT

2 posted on 05/03/2012 12:29:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: tomdavidd; Freeper; Gvl_M3; Flotsam_Jetsome; Berlin_Freeper; Hotlanta Mike; Silentgypsy; ...
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. . . . TM, too.

3 posted on 05/03/2012 12:30:36 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: LucyT
It's actually a pretty common theme:


4 posted on 05/03/2012 12:31:58 PM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: LucyT

stealing? not possible. with communists ‘possession’ is a crime. it is merely sharing between buds


5 posted on 05/03/2012 12:33:12 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch ( go in peace , serve the Lord)
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To: cuban leaf

Like the sheep in this country would get the connection....

A nation of sheep begets a gov’t of wolves.


6 posted on 05/03/2012 12:33:39 PM PDT by bicyclerepair ( REPLACE D-W-S ! http://www.karenforcongress.com)
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To: LucyT
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7 posted on 05/03/2012 12:35:08 PM PDT by baddog 219
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To: LucyT

8 posted on 05/03/2012 12:36:09 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: PhilDragoo
These guys took it from the Hitler Youth Marching song, "Forward!"
Forward!
9 posted on 05/03/2012 12:40:45 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: bicyclerepair

The problem is that if one pulls the “’Forward’ is a communist slogan” card, any liberal need merely bring up the Wisconsin flag and say, “what on earth are you talking about, you rightwing loony?”


10 posted on 05/03/2012 12:46:26 PM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: LucyT

The Great Lean Forward.

Man’s Country approved this message.


11 posted on 05/03/2012 12:51:15 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (nobody gives me warheads anyway))
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To: baddog 219; moovova
LOL...that's great!

Freeper moovova had a good one yesterday.....

FORWARD
BARACKWARD.

You are both very clever and imaginative.

12 posted on 05/03/2012 12:51:39 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001. NEVER FORGET.)
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To: LucyT

To be fair, during the mid-1960’s, supporters of Rhodesia used the slogan “Forward, Rhodesia!”


13 posted on 05/03/2012 12:51:48 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: LucyT
"However if a mid estimate of 30 million deaths is accepted, the Great leap Forward was the deadliest famine in the history of China and in the history of the world"
14 posted on 05/03/2012 12:54:41 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (FOCUS ON FACTS: 0bamaCare Hated. Worst Recovery. Failed Stimulus. Worst Deficits.)
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To: Churchillspirit

Should read-Forward and Bendover!


15 posted on 05/03/2012 12:55:30 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: LucyT

It’s not a blunder at all. The slogan just reflects Obama’s marxist ideology. And he takes comfort in knowing the American electorate is far too dumbed-down and unaware to know or care that it aligns with Mao. I doubt if half even know who Mao is.


16 posted on 05/03/2012 1:01:34 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... so should voting!)
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To: PhilDragoo

Looks like the two Maoists just to “Obama’” right are engaged in some serious grab-ass.


17 posted on 05/03/2012 1:04:17 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... so should voting!)
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To: PhilDragoo

Looks like the two Maoists just to “Obama’s” right are engaged in some serious grab-ass.


18 posted on 05/03/2012 1:04:32 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... so should voting!)
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To: bicyclerepair
"A nation of sheep begets a gov’t of wolves."

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How the political class in America views us at present:

How the political class would like us to be:


19 posted on 05/03/2012 1:09:54 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... so should voting!)
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To: ScottinVA

Sorry for the size on the “sheep” pic... that was ...

...unexpected.


20 posted on 05/03/2012 1:11:10 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... so should voting!)
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