Talk:Jim Higgins

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Jimmie Higgins was also the name of a fictional Character created by Upton Sinclair. Sinclair named a novel published in 1919 after this disciplined and a little naive grass-roots activist, and Jimmie Higgins became a proverbial synonym for the (now defunct) type of the "true believer" among the rank and file of leftist movements. Robert Schediwy

P.S.:See Aileen S. Kraditor: "Jimmy Higgins": The Mental World of the American Rank-And-File Communist, 1930-1958 (Contributions in Political Science) Greenwood Press 1988. ("This study fills a conspicuous gap in the secondary literature on the Communist Party by examining the mental world of the wholly committed rank-and-file Party member".--91.129.8.56 (talk) 18:17, 21 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

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