Dorothy Day Quotes
We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York.
Day, Dorothy. Dorothy Day: Selected Writings. Edited by Robert Ellsberg, Orbis Books, 1992, p. 280.
The extreme left wing revolutionists were counting on a continuing of the Great Depression’s pattern of lowering the average standard of living to produce a revolution and a downfall of capitalism in America. They saw Roosevelt and the New Deal as the element that could prevent the radical change so they opposed the President and his programs. However, when Russia needed the material support of the capitalist countries for its fight with Nazism, the Party line changed and Roosevelt was no longer attacked by the communists but was actively supported. Communists became “patriotic” all of a sudden.
And as the leader of the exploited, after his revolution he became a dictator himself, albeit a very popular one amongst most Cubans.
Executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising.
Referring to the newly imposed income tax:
In 1927 there was a Peasant Uprising in the Hunan Province of China. Young Mau went there and wrote a report. Mao and other young communist leaders had a much more acute appreciation of sloganeering than their older revolutionary comrades. Even into the 3rd millennium, the same “Down with Imperialism” slogan could be heard in many part of the world, long after the Soviet Union collapsed and China and become capitalistic.
This was the basic document issued after the Russian Revolution establishing the basic legal and economic structure of the new Soviet State. In one of the great ironies, the Communist state forced people to work, while the capitalistic United States and most of the European Countries so this as an invasion of rights and even provided welfare and other assistance to those who did not work as well as to others.
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Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic Christian without abandoning her social and anarchist activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical in the American Catholic Church.
