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Dorothy Day

American journalist and Catholic Worker founder, 1897 to 1980

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Co-founded the Catholic Worker movement, which runs houses of hospitality for the poor, and combined Catholic faith with pacifism, anarchism and labor activism.

Dorothy Day sits in the left-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly state-led and strongly libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly peace-first on war and peace, strongly religious on religion and strongly state-led on economy.

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Where Dorothy Day sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityStrongly libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyStrongly tech-cautious
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionStrongly religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismStrongly non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Dorothy Day

Mahatma Gandhi Leader of the Indian independence movement99%Bob Marley Jamaican musician, 1945 to 198197%Leo Tolstoy Russian novelist and moral thinker, 1828 to 191097%Jacques Ellul French sociologist and Christian anarchist, 1912 to 199495%Muhammad Ali American boxer and activist, 1942 to 201694%Simone Weil French philosopher and activist, 1909 to 194393%Cesar Chavez American labor leader, 1927 to 199393%Thích Nhất Hạnh Vietnamese Zen master and peace activist, 1926 to 202293%

People furthest from Dorothy Day

Joseph Stalin Soviet leader, 1920s to 19531%Kim Jong Un Supreme Leader of North Korea, 2011 to present2%Peter the Great Tsar of Russia, 1682 to 17252%Adolf Hitler Chancellor and Führer of Germany, 1933 to 19452%

Political views closest to Dorothy Day

Christian leftDraws on Christian ethics for social justice, peace and care for the poor, including…91%PacifismRejects war as a political tool and favors nonviolent resistance and disarmament.84%Deep ecologyGives nature value in itself and calls for a radical reduction of human impact.82%Utopian socialismImagines planned model communities built on cooperation, an approach that predates…82%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Vivian Cherry, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.