Church Quote by Pope Pius XI

Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought into harmony…

— Pope Pius XI

Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity…

— Kurt Vonnegut

When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism and slavery.

— August Bebel

Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration…

— Antonio Gramsci

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

— Richard John Neuhaus

“Marxism was a simple substitute for Christianity. Replace God with Marx, Satan with the bourgeoisie, Heaven with a classless society, the Church with the…

— Arundhati Roy

Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Thus posed, the problem of unbrotherliness can oppose socialism, which uses and abuses the word bortherhood while rejecting fatherhood. Socialism has no opponent. Religions,…

— Fedorov N.f

“As everyone who has read the Marxists critically has not failed to see... the gospel of St. Marx is just the old Judaeo-Christian mythology…

— Revilo P. Oliver

If Socialism, like all errors, contains some truth (which, moreover, the Supreme Pontiffs have never denied), it is based nevertheless on a theory of…

— Pope Pius XI

All contemporary religions and churches, all and every kind of religious organization, Marxism has always viewed as organs of bourgeois reaction, serving as a…

— Vladimir Lenin

Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power

— Alexander Berkman