Trotsky said it first

Leon Trotsky said in 1932, that "Enemies are gleeful that fifteen years afer the revolution (1917) the soviet country is still but little like a kingdom of universal well-being. Capitalism required a hundred years to elevate science and technique to the heights and plunge humanity into the hell of war and crisis. To socialism its enemies allow only fifteen years to create and furnish a terrestrial paradise."

Trotsky continues, "Do the consequences of a revolution (1917 )justify in general the sacrifices it involves? ... The October revolution (1917) laid the foundation of a new culture taking everybody into consideration, and for that very reason immediately acquiring international significance.... the inexpugnable impress of the October revolution would remain upon the whole future development of mankind."

Leon Trotsky, one of the architects of the soviet, Communist revolution of October, 1917. He also wrote that, "October has internationalized such words a Bolshevik, soviet and piatiletka (Five Year Plan). This alone justifies the proletarian revolution, if you can imagine that it needs justification."

This November, 2008, words like ‘hope’ and ‘change’ have been heard both locally and globally. Do Trotsky’s words tinged pride, calling for patience until the soviet (and global) paradise is achieved, not resemble our President-elect (who called himself a citizen of the world) calling for support and restraint going forward into his new world ordered up for America? If so, Obama’s repeated calls for ‘hope’ and ‘change’ resound a socialist revolution.