He warned against authoritarian corporatism, fascism, and Marxism, calling for an "autonomist Christian solidarism", based on communitarian values.
I think there is another reason for City Year's success in making people prize communitarian values.
Pro- and anti-abortion forces in Europe function in a less confrontational atmosphere, which is probably related to European social values, which are less extreme, more communitarian and, ultimately, less radical.
That's what Byrne tried to do this week, invoking William Beveridge in support of a more incentivised and punitive benefits system, but also drawing on Glasman's emphasis on communitarian values.
Others worry that the project would be a death blow to the communitarian values and culture that isolation has generated.
But liberal critics of "welfare reform" have been forthright in enunciating the compassionate and communitarian values of welfare that lie behind the welfare entitlement.
A market economy constructed around communitarian values and proactively managed is the engine of wealth creation - and the race is on to see which party adopts that credo as its own.
"Now we have minorities and feminists and the left allied with fundamentalists who believe some communitarian values take precedence," she said.
The colony, sometimes known as Camp Three Arrows, was imbued with socialist and communitarian values and offers a wide range of cultural, educational and leisure activities.
Whatever the legal concepts employed, interests theory promotes communitarian values in its theory of distributive justice.