Yes. Shame that all the operative words (liberalism, distributism, capitalism, socialism, and so many others) have “evolved.” The Molly Maguires are no longer necessary to confront the early evils of America’s Industrial Revolution. Funny though—Three Acres and a Cow came well after Five Acres and a Mule.
Yes, and Dorothy Day’s mishmash of Catholic devotional and doctrinal language with the Marxist terms she used throughout her life—the masses, the workers, the bourgeois, the class war are some of the most frequent—has contributed greatly to the mess.