[Ads-l] Antedating of "Fellow Traveler"

[Dan Goncharoff]

In "Groans of the People", 1912 by Jacob Rubin (as Rev. Ealer), p58, he
uses "fellow-traveller" to refer to policies that are similar to Socialism.


DanG


On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 12:30 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
wrote:

> 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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