What is Economic Personalism ?

"Economic Personalism" is a
Fraud: The Solution to
Capitalism

by Louise and Mark
Zwick

You don't have to be a genius to realize
the failure of Marxism. Even before 1989 one could have realized that Marxist regimes
were not built on Marxist ideologies and theory, but were built on the rather strange
foundation of tens of millions of bodies of the proletariat who disagreed with the
regime.

The foundation of the Marxist governments of Russia
and China was two cemeteries.

Dorothy Day left the left.
She realized as a young woman that the world's economic problems were not solved by
socialism and Communism. She resigned from the left because of its lack of profundity
after her World War I experience with socialists. (See Anne Klejment and Nancy Roberts,
eds., American Catholic Pacifism, Praeger, 1996). Several years
later, at the age of 30, she became Catholic, only to discover the papal encyclicals and
personalism. Dorothy Day was influenced by great thinkers like Peter Maurin, Father
Virgil Michel, O.S.B., Emmanuel Mounier, Leo XIII and Pius
XI.

Early editions of The Catholic Worker
are full of references to the popes and their
writings.

Dorothy was neither a socialist nor a capitalist.
She was a Christian personalist like the present pope. Dorothy made clear her goal in
starting the newspaper in its first editorial: "In an attempt to popularize and make
known the encyclicals of the popes and the program offered by the Church for the
constructing of a social order, this news sheet was started."