The Way of Love: Dorothy Day and the American Right

 “The Communists,” she said, sought to build “a sense of the sacredness and holiness and the dignity of the machine and of work, in order to content the proletariat with their propertyless state.” So why, she asked, “do we talk of fighting communism, which we are supposed to oppose because it does away with private property? We have done that very well ourselves in this country.” 

World War II destroyed agrarianism as an active force in American intellectual life — just as it fortified the urban citadels of power and money.

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