Religious socialism has deep roots within both prophetic and textual traditions as well as in more recent liberation movements. Articles in this section acquaint our readers with these movements and prophets.
Michael Harrington, founder of DSA, joined the Catholic Worker in 1951 before leaving the Church the next year. Nevertheless, Dorothy Day had a profound influence on him, in effect giving this dutiful son of a prosperous and pious Midwestern family permission to follow his instincts leftward.