The Catholic Worker Program

As Peter pointed out, ours was a long-range program, looking for ownership by the workers of the means of production, the abolition of the assembly line, decentralized factories, the restoration of crafts and ownership of property.  This meant, of course, an accent on the agrarian and rural aspects of our economy and a changing of emphasis from the city to the land...

Peter...talked about Christ's technique, of working from the bottom and with the few, of self-discipline and self-organization, of sacrifice rather than enlightened self-interest, and of course, of the synthesis of cult, culture, and cultivation.  How he loved the roll of that phrase...

There is so much more to the Catholic Worker Movement than labor and capital...--Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, pg. 222