[Ads-l] Antedating of "Fellow Traveler"

[Shapiro, Fred]

fellow traveler (OED, 2., 1927)

1925 tr. Leon Trotsky _Literature and Revolution_ 57  The majority of these writers ... are very young ...They are not the artists of the proletarian Revolution, but her artist "fellow-travelers" in the sense in which this word was used by the old Socialists.

Fred Shapiro


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