Most Catholics (or anyone familiar with basic facts about Catholicism or Christianity in general) may be surprised to learn that this week America — a prominent Jesuit-run publication — ran a piece entitled "The Catholic Case for Communism."
While America has long leaned hard to the left (last year it published a piece by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez), this seems like a step too far even for the notoriously liberal Jesuits.
The crux of the article (written by Dean Dettloff) seems to be that while communists have done some not-so-great things over the years (such as murdering approximately 100 million people), they did it with the best intentions and an "aspiration for a world liberated from a political economy that demands vast exploitation of the many for the comfort of a few."
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