More interesting is that it was very briefly used as a slogan in a commercial (for a hi-tech product) some years ago. Not clear whether they stopped using it because of it's red association (99% of the population has no clue about that) or just because it didn't have enough oomph for whatever they were after.
Joanna
Michael Pugliese wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:16:11 -0800, joanna bujes <jbujes at covad.net>
> wrote:
>
>> It wasn't Orwell, it ws Lytton Strachey.
>>
>> Joanna
>
>
> I can't believe that such a well known saying can be so
> mis-attributed. The writer that thought that was Orwell, guffaw.
> Justin was right, it was Lincoln Steffens.
>
> The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996.
> I have been over into the future, and it works.
> ATTRIBUTION: Lincoln Steffens (1866–1936), U.S. writer, editor.
> Quoted in Steffens, Autobiography, ch. 18 (1931).
>
> Remark to financier Bernard Baruch, on his return from the Soviet
> Union in 1919; he made the same remark in a letter, April 3, 1919.
>
> A chapter on Steffens here, if memory serves,
> The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963: The Intellectual As a Social
> Type
> by Christopher Lasch
>
> Neo-con Paul Hollander assembled the most embarrassing quotes by
> "fellow travelers" and
> Communists during and after their trips to the fSU, PRC, and Cuba in,
> "Political Pilgrims." British leftist historian, David Caute does the
> same in, "The Fellow Travellers: Intellectual Friends of Communism."
> Great essay by German new leftist, Han Magnus Enzenberger on
> "revolutionary tourism, " see his essay collection, "The
> consciousness industry;: On literature, politics and the media,. "