Damien

“Early Christian socialism in England, Germany, Switzerland, the United States, and Canada was a creative response to the social ravages of unfettered nineteenth-century capitalism.”
― Gary Dorrien, Social Democracy in the Making: Political and Religious Roots of European Socialism

“In England and North America it was predominantly cooperative, progressive, social ethical, and pragmatic, usually fusing liberal and democratic elements, with less opposition from ecclesiastical establishments than Christian socialists experienced elsewhere.”
― Gary Dorrien, Social Democracy in the Making: Political and Religious Roots of European Socialism

“One sees in God only what one worships.”
― Patricia Storace, The Book of Heaven

“Charles Fourier, in France, and Robert Owen, in England, propounded the original idea of socialism in the 1820s. It was to achieve the unrealized demands of the French Revolution, which never reached the working class. Instead of pitting workers against each other, a cooperative mode of production and exchange would allow them to work for each other. Socialism was about reorganizing society as a cooperative community.”
― Gary Dorrien, Social Democracy in the Making: Political and Religious Roots of European Socialism