Ideologies / Anarcho-Syndicalist / Tom Joad
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Tom Joad
Wherever there's a fight
The worker's solidarity, personified.
Economic−74
SocialistMarket
Governance−90
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+55
TraditionalProgressive
Steinbeck's migrant everyman, whose closing vow to be 'wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat' captures the syndicalist spirit of working-class solidarity from below.
social
Awakening egalitarian conscience of the dispossessed.
economic
Dispossessed labour reaching toward collective ownership.
governance
Grassroots solidarity against bosses and the law alike.
Notable for
- Hero of 'The Grapes of Wrath'
- 'I'll be there' speech
- Symbol of labour solidarity
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