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CATHOLIC

WORKER

115 Mott Street

CAnal 6-8498

New York 13, N. Y.

November 2, 1945

Dear Claude:

Thank you for your good letter. I was thinking of St. Paul's Chapter 12 to the Romans; and his idea that some minister and some prophesy. We all have different parts in the Mystical Body of Christ. Some teach and some rule, some serve humbly; he brings that out several times in his Epistles.

It was also in the first Corinthians, chapter 12, verse 14 on; it seems to me that this clarifies that idea that society cannot be levelled--that we all have different functions and should respect each other's work and each other's persons. I think you and I are thinking different things when we are talking about fighting Communism. I am afraid I did not make myself clear in the part of Mr. Budenz but I feel that his going/typical bourgeois college failed with race and class prejudice, in fact, if not in theory, he fails the workers and that he is not opposing Communism with anything positive.

When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists it seems to me. There is so much positive work to be done that I hate to see people wasting time in this way. When I called attention to Mr. Nutting and the decentralists, I wished also to call attention to opposed Communism with good constructive material. He has written some magnificent essays--Mr. Nutting has. Printed, sadly enough, in the