Peter Maurin (May 9, 1877 – May 15, 1949) was a Roman Catholic social activist who founded the Catholic Worker Movement in 1933 with Dorothy Day.
Maurin expressed his ideas through short pieces of verse that became known as "Easy Essays". http:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Catholic_Radicalism-_Phrased_Essays_For_The_Green_Revolution.pdf.
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