Catholic communism

Catholic communism, also known as Catholic Bolshevism,^[1]^[2]^[3] Christian Bolshevism,^[4] Left-Catholicism or White Bolshevism,^[5] and whose supporters are known as Catholic communists, Catholic-Bolshevists or Christian Bolsheviks, is a form of Christian communism that combines Catholicism with communism and Bolshevism. Known as cattocomunismo in Italian, Catholic communism first emerged in Italy in the 1930s amongst the members of Catholic Action.^[6] Catholic communists embraced communism as the realization of Catholic social teaching and accepted historical materialism, but also rejected the dialectical materialism and atheism of Marxism-Leninism.^[7]

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