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(CPUSA) or were close to the party or sympathetic to its aims.

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In their book '' Red Diapers: Growing Up in the Communist Left'', Judy Kaplan and Linn Shapiro define red diaper babies as "children of CPUSA members, children of former CPUSA members, and children whose parents never became members of the CPUSA but were involved in political, cultural, or educational activities led or supported by the Party". More generally, the phrase is sometimes used to refer to a child of any radical parent, regardless of that parent's past partisan affiliation (or the affiliation of the child). ''Red Diaper Baby'' is also the title of an

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and book by monologist Josh Kornbluth, and a 2004

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