religion

On Pilgrimage – Dorothy Day Against the Vietnam War

1946-1989, Consciousness Raising, Date, Tactics of Disruption

Dorothy Day expresses her sorrow and outrage against the Vietnam War and calls to Christians and Catholics to band together against it

Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day was an American Catholic activist, writer, and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. Her life was defined by her dedication to following the principles of the Sermon on the Mount, embracing radical hospitality, advocating for pacifism, and fighting for peace and social justice. Dorothy Day was strongly against the Vietnam War, criticizing it both morally and religiously. As a dedicated pacifist and Catholic, she believed the war was a serious injustice that went against the teachings of Christ. She saw the war as an example of imperialism and violence, which conflicted with her values of peace, justice, and helping the poor.

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Soviet Churches and Schools (1919)

1840-1945, Authority, Date, Defining the Enemy, Disruptive Spaces, Institutions, Self Institution, Students, Subjectives of Refusal, Tactics of Disruption, Workers

Nikolai Bukharin – a Bolshevik revolutionary – discusses the need for not only economic liberation but also spiritual liberation of the working class and its party. He asserts that religion is a detriment to the workers’ struggle. He calls for a separation of church and state and religion as a private matter. Additionally, he states that schools must free education from capital and religion.

The worship of the souls of the dead rich was the foundation of religion…
The church was an organization of the bourgeois state…
The organs of the local workers’ authority shall have control over the schools, and shall not stint their energies in the matter of popular education, supplying to all the children and young men and young women all the knowledge which they need for a happy life.

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