The recent revelation that Michael Moore's Catholicism emerges in his latest film as a centrepiece of his critique of capitalism is really no surprise. The claim in Capitalism: A Love Story that free markets are inconsistent with Christianity has wrong-footed Moore's rightwing critics, but the right's bid to monopolise religion has been challenged for some time.
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In the tradition of the Catholic Worker Movement; fine people like Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy. And one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World was a Catholic Priest, Father Tom Haggerty. He wrote the preamble to the IWW constitution: "The working class and the employing class have nothing in common ... It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism ... " etc.
ReplyDeleteOf course if people of this calibre ever gained influence in the church they'd be excommunicated.
Heckler: "Do you think you can change the world?
Ammon Hennacy: "No, and damned if it can change me."
wrong-footed? That's one of the worst words I've ever heard.
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