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Matt Bruenig has a joke that the reason he named his company Vanguard is that it’s the vanguard of socialism.


I don’t get it.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguardism

(The company is actually named after Lord Nelson's flagship at the Nile, but who's counting?)


van·guard /ˈvanˌɡärd/ noun noun: vanguard; plural noun: vanguards

a group of people leading the way in new developments or ideas.




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