Another excellent essay from Daniel Jupp.

“Marxism can in some senses be understood as a perversion of Christian empathy, and that’s certainly how it manifests itself in someone like the current Pope or like Bishop Budde. It is an economic recasting of good and evil not by actions but by socioeconomic status. A rich man must be evil and a poor man must be good, without reference to their actions. And it extends that fallacy of course towards nations and cultures too. A rich or successful nation must be evil, and a poor or failing nation must be good. Western civilisation must be evil because it is successful. Non western civilisation must be good because they were less successful.

Marxist victim narratives have always used, to some extent, a cloaking language of Christian compassion, although Marx and Lenin were both too deeply unpleasant themselves as individuals to do so with much conviction or regularity. Lenin is often cheerfully psychopathic in his commentary, and Marx riddled with poisonous prejudices, bitterness and hatred that bubbles up through the layers of supposed concern for the working class like noxious gases escaping from a swamp.”

RTWT