Word: maurine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once an Episcopalian, was converted to Catholicism 13 years ago after having dabbled in Socialism as a writer on the New York Call, in Communism as an employe of the old Masses and the Liberator. For almost five years her colleague on the Catholic Worker has been Peter Maurin, 60, a genial, peasant-born Frenchman who, for the sake of his principles, gave up giving French lessons, became a laborer at a boys' camp. In 1932, reading two of Miss Day's articles in Catholic magazines, he discovered they spoke the same language, and hastened to outline...
...contributor to the "Catholic Worker," Peter Maurin is one of the most widely read writers of the present day America. The simplicity as well as the uniqueness of his style helps him to be tradily understood in an age when one must write simply and cleverly, if one does not wish to increase the already large volume of literary mystification...
...Since Maurin is close to the "people," to the worker and farmers of America, his political ideas often diverge greatly to the left of those held by the hierarchy. He is thus suspect to many an archbishop or vicar-general. Although he is a layman, he seems to remind one of the Dean of Canterbury, of the Established Church, Canon Dick Sheppard, Dr. Reinheld Niebuhr, and Bishop Francis J. McConnell of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for he takes his Christianity just as seriously...
...Maurin's conclusion is his own, though its truth must be challenged, for he is obviously wrong when he says that the Communists' "advocate class struggle." They do not. They say that the class struggle is a fact and that only the dictatorship of the proletariat can end it. That is not the same thing as what Maurin, says, but it is Marx or Lenin. Maurin has the especial merit of stating a point of view so badly that it stimulates the reader to examine closely his every word. Thus he acquaints us with the opinions of many persons less...
...Maurin is useful even if one rejects all the essays. They inform both the extreme Right and the extreme Left of the views which men and women in the midway hold concerning what they want or think they want from a new social order. Information of that sort is now becoming increasingly hard to get wholesale...