"The Jesuit flagship publication in the United States, America magazine, has published an article defending Marxism and comparing the murderous, atheist ideology to Christianity.
In “The Catholic Case for Communism,” America writer Dean Dettloff says that the militant atheism of Marxist politics is
Citing Marxist arguments, Dettloff makes the bizarre claim that the ownership of private property necessarily leads to slavery, since property owners come to see other people as just another form of property to be owned.
“Communism in its socio-political expression has at times caused great human and ecological suffering,” Dettloff concedes, but any “good communist is quick to admit as much,” he adds, because “communism is an unfinished project that depends on the recognition of its real and tragic mistakes.”
Mr. Dettloff evidently believes that over 100 million deaths in the 20th century can be reduced to “great human and ecological suffering” caused by the Marxist ideology being an “unfinished project.”
One would be tempted to suggest that if Marxism were a “finished” project, the deaths would be many times greater.
Dettloff goes so far as to parallel Marx’s The Communist Manifesto to Catholic teaching on the nature of private property.
Although the Catholic Church “officially” teaches that private property is a natural right, Dettloff writes, “this teaching also comes with the proviso that private property is always subordinate to the common good.” Breitbart
This is Dangerous -- mixing communism with religion. Imagine the hate driven violent rage of Leftist Bolsheviks who also think they are doing God's will....
Thou shalt not covet thy...any thing that is thy neighbor's.
Exodus 20:17
