RT Article
T1 Brownson, Politics, and "The Laboring Classes" During a Presidential Election
JF The catholic historical review
VO 107
IS 4
SP 585
OP 604
A1 Carey, Patrick W. 1940-
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1783630728
AB A little more than three years before his conversion to the Catholic Church, Orestes Brownson wrote a radical essay on "The Laboring Classes." Brownson had a life-long sympathy for the poor working classes. His essay's Unitarian-Transcendentalist Christian arguments, and its proto-Marxist critique of the systemic evils of an economy that weighed heavily on the working class, created a widespread animated reaction in the political community during a presidential election, and eventually caused Brownson himself to rethink his own religious arguments.
DO 10.1353/cat.2021.0036