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Easy Essays A comprehensive collection of Peter's Easy Essays originally published in The Catholic Worker. We're proud to reissue this edition, with the cherished green cover Peter Maurin wood-cut art by Fritz Eichenberg. 228 pages — paper, illustrations
Easy Essays/Pamphlet Is there a more appropriate way to carry around Peter's words & share them with others?. Less comprehensive than the book, but beautifully done and including a fine introduction by Dorothy Day. A terrific starting point for gaining familiarity with Peter Maurin's outlook. 64 pages - booklet
Peter Maurin: Apostle to the World "Peter Maurin is most truly the founder of the Catholic Worker movement. I would never have had an idea in my head about such work if it had not been for him...He opened our minds to great horizons, he gave us a vision." -- Dorothy Day 192 pages — paper
Peter Maurin: Prophet in the 20th Century Originally published decades ago, this title has long been out of print. But biographical work on Peter Maurin is scarce and Ellis did his homework well, offering a powerful interpretation of Maurin's significance as a result. 178 pages — paper
Flee to the Fields An excellent collection of the founding papers of the English Distributist movement of the 1930s & 40s, featuring material by may of the principle intellects of the group, including Belloc, McNabb, Chesterton and others. A consciously Catholic-informed social movement seeking alternatives to both capitalism and communism, this movement had a strong influence on the early Catholic Worker movement. 144 pages — paper
The Free Press A classic voice that saw early in the last century the direction of modern society - even under the veneer of freedom and democracy — as slavish devotees of wealth. 96 pages — paper
An Essay on the Restoration of Property In the not too distant past, some men chose to inaugurate and implement the social-Darwinist economic free for all, so too may we today freely decide to move society in a different direction. A society where cooperation, community, and culture are superior to profit, franchise expansion, and silly fantasies like the "New Economy." All it takes is a vision, and a practical sense of how to implement that vision. Belloc's Essay provides both. 104 pages — paper
The Gauntlet: A Challenge to the Myth of Progress One of the most persistent advocates of guild socialism in the early 20th century also influenced the Distributists and Maurin with his religious vision of just economic and social structure. 96 pages — paper
Outline of Sanity Chesterton was one of the greatest skeptics of the seductions of Western materialism, but he also articulated a viable alternative. 184 pages — paper
Utopia of Usurers . . . Chesterton at his energetic and boisterous best, taking on the economic and cultural apostles of modern industrial capitalism. Utopia of Usurers is a full-scale broadside against the folly of modern economic and cultural life, in the name of humanity, sanity, justice, and charity. 136 pages — paper
Mutual Aid Mutual Aid is Kropotkin's classic anarchist answer to the misuse of the theory of "survival of the fittest." He presents the progressive elements of evolution, cooperation and support within the species, as the actual and evolutionary basis for social growth. 400 pages — paper
The Church and the Land Fr. McNabb's is a common and yet unique voice within the Distributist tradition, for he represents the voice of the Church, with its characteristic concern for morality and the salvation of souls, in economic as well as all other aspects of man's daily life. Originally published: London, 1926. 192 pages — paper
Personalism One of Peter Maurin's favorite intellectuals elaborates on his "final definition of personalism." This philosophy, a major influence on the Catholic Worker movement, offers a way of human engagement in the world that nevertheless honors and enhances our spiritual goal. 132 pages — paper
Economic Justice Msgr. Ryan was one of the leading Catholic voices for social justice in the early decades of the 20th century, championing the concepts of the living wage and distributive justice. Both are reprised in this volume. 214 pages — paper
The Person and The Common Good "A primer of principle." One of the primary philosophers of Personalism distinguishes its focus on the dignity of the person from social philosophies premised on "rugged individualism." 128 pages — paper
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