Peter Maurin on Charles Péguy and Emmanuel Mounier
A New Movement
The Nazis, the Fascists
and the Bolsheviks
are Totalitarians.
The Catholic Worker
is Communitarian.
The principles of
Communitarianism
are expounded every month
in the French magazine Esprit
(the Spirit).
Emmanuel Mounier,
editor of the magazine,
has a book entitled
La Revolution Personnaliste et
Communitaire .
Emmanuel Mounier
wrote a book entitled
A Personalist Manifesto.
Emmanuel Mounier
has been influenced
by Charley Péguy.
Charles Péguy once said:
“There are two things
in the world:
politics and mysticism.”
For Charles Péguy
as well as Mounier,
politics is the struggle for power
while mysticism
is the realism
of the spirit.
For the man-of-the-street
politics
is just politics
and mysticism
is the right spirit.
In his Personalist Manifesto
Mounier tries to explain
what the man-of-the street
calls “the right spirit.”
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