Ideologies / Distributist / Dorothy Day
§ The minds · 1897–1980 · United States · Activist & founder
Dorothy Day
The Catholic Worker
Hospitality, land, and the common life.
Economic−32
SocialistMarket
Governance+42
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social−30
TraditionalProgressive
The co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, whose houses of hospitality and agrarian communes put distributist and cooperative ideals into lived practice.
social
Devout traditionalist, yet radical on poverty and peace.
economic
Cooperative, land-based community against industrial capitalism.
governance
Moral-traditional order with radical voluntary commitment.
Notable for
- Co-founded the Catholic Worker
- Houses of hospitality
- Pacifist social action
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