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...faith. He is really an agitator. For 35 years he traveled up & down the U.S. in the dirty, ragged clothes which were his only possessions, sleeping in flophouses, eating in skid row joints, inveighing to everyone he met against industrialism, war and Christian smugness. His name is Peter Maurin...
Among U. S. Christians who care for the poor, none are more blessed with selfless zeal than those Roman Catholics who labor in the Catholic Worker movement. Their leaders are rugged, genial Peter Maurin and tall, dowdy Dorothy Day, who run a "House of Hospitality" in Manhattan, edit the Catholic Worker, a 1?monthly with 125,000 circulation...
...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...
...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...