In key aspects the Movement was the ‘mirror image’ of the Communist Party: in terms of passionate social concern, disenchantment with ‘unjust’ capitalism, organisational structure and ‘democratic centralism’, conspiratorial methods and secrecy, a sense of apocalyptic struggle, messianism, and a conviction about the historical role of the ‘party’ and its leader.
BRUCE DUNCAN,
Crusade or Conspiracy?
Catholics and the anti-communist struggle in Australia