The socialist Jesus hoax
Illustrious masters of the past did their utmost in this sense, ending up becoming the inspirations of subsequent generations: “Even poor Christ is tossed to the right and left. Antonio Labriola: “We socialists have the holy audacity to claim to be more Christian than priests, indeed, the only Christians of the century”. Gramsci: “Socialism is the religion that will kill Christianity”. (Sergio Ricossa, Survival manual for honest Italians – Rizzoli 1997).
Gramsci’s intent seems to have failed, while his attempt has proven to be very substantial enlist Jesus as a socialistfinding fertile ground among those who feel at ease in the arms of a new church, the Catholic-communist one, within the Church.
The latest episodes
- Bad tempora currunt
- Socialism, the “great blunder”: why I prefer the market
- Migrants flee towards capitalism and freedom
Catholicism and socialism
Speaking of economic issues, Catholicism has, on the other hand, also had illustrious supporters of more interesting theses: “John Paul II in Centesimus annus (…): “By intervening directly and deresponsibilising society, the welfare state causes a loss of human energy and an exaggerated increase in public apparatus, dominated by bureaucratic logic rather than by the concern to serve users, with enormous growth in expenses.” (Sergio Ricossa, The dangers of solidarity – Rizzoli 1993).
And again: “With the encyclical Centesimus annus the Church seems to openly accept the market economy system, and even manages to see it the defects of Welfare State. Too bad you don’t condemn the Catholic Communists, who form a second Church.” (Sergio Ricossa, How to ruin a country – Rizzoli 1995). And it’s also a shame that the cycle repeats itself, undeterred.