What is a fellow traveler?
A colleague Traveler is a common expression indicating solidarity among individuals who have similar interests or associations. It is used in different settings. Christian groups sometimes use it to reference to the fact that all people travel together on this country before reaching eternal life. This term could also use members of the same club, political affiliation, society, professions and et ctera. There is solidarity and a sense of cohesion that is conjured when people say they are passengers.
ideas expressed for someone who has long been a traveler precedes this term. Examples of this concept are pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales or Dickens' descriptions of long rides in coaches or solidarity among men. However, the term itself did not receive widespread use only later and its origin is often dated to the beginnings of communist Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. Initial use is often attributed to Leon Trotsky, a Russian writer who spoke about SPIncorporations and other artists who supported a change in the communist regime but were not directly involved in participating in the Russian Revolution. It should be noted that it is trotsky to this term to the earlier socialist writing.
For some time, the idea of a co -traveler had a unique connection with communism. Immediately after World War II in the US, especially Americans, in their fear of communism, they described members or suspect members of the US Communist Party as a passenger. It was a deep insult, given the US sentiment on communism and the era of McCarthyism, which proliferated over this time period.
As a pejorative, the idea of a passenger has faded very faded for years, and if people do not know the origin of the term, they can be more likely to be a positive and connecting description. Now there are many people who sweeten others as colleagues. As always, the term expresses solIdarity and interconnection, but it is more of the absence of his earlier negative associations. Even Trotsky feared artists who were not active in the Communist Revolution, and wondered how far the new communist Russia would support, but the basic anxiety associated with this term has been resolved since then.
Today, it is more common to hear about people who combine each other in a positive way that is described as a fellow traveler. Some people are involved in the All-Inclusive on the passengers and insist that everyone is traveling together on Earth, even if they have many disagreements. The common fact that we live on the same planet, circling the sun, can mean that we all share a fate or goal to some extent.