red-diaper baby

English

Etymology

Coined by Judy Kaplan and Linn Shapiro in the book Red Diapers: Growing Up in the Communist Left

Noun

red-diaper baby (plural red-diaper babies)

  1. A person born to and raised by a member of or supportive of the Communist Party USA.
  2. A person born to and raised by a parent or parents who held any radical political views.

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