So the Pope is a marxist.... (wait for it)

[kandrathe]

But nothing quite of the magnitude of calling Hitler, or even the Pope, a Marxist.

Well, you have a low threshold to stupidity "magnitude". Stay away from Twitter.

The Pope cannot be Marxist by default, since religion (a form of idealism) is completely incompatible with Marxism's 'materialist conception of history'. One can be religious and be socialist, but that is another thing entirely. Socialism ≠ Marxism. Though had Rush called the Pope "socialist", he would still be quite wrong.

I think in religious circles there would be more concern of creeping Liberation Theology in the new Pope. But in reading the aforementioned tome, I didn't see the twisted justification for revolutionary action which characterizes LT. (I still have my first edition LT book by Gustavo Gutiérrez).

Politically speaking, the Pope is a typical bourgeois liberal - nothing more nothing less. Critical of some of the negatives of capitalism, but merely wanting to contain it (or reform it), and not overhaul it completely (as in Marxism).

I'm encouraged by the "lead by example" of this Pope, who is attempting to shift the "wealthy entrenched Catholic Church body" toward frugality, humility and aiding the poor. Which is a far cry from where they've been for the last 1000 (or so) years. We shall see whether the Church follows their leader, or ignores him.