Catholic communism

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Catholic communism (known in Italian as cattocomunismo) is a political and theological movement that attempts to combine or synthesise Catholic social teachings with communism and Bolshevism. Its adherents are known as Catholic communists, and the ideology has also been referred to, sometimes erroneously, by various other names, including Catholic Bolshevism, Christian Bolshevism, Left-Catholicism, and White Bolshevism. The movement first emerged in Italy during the early 20th century, developing significantly in the 1930s among members of the Catholic Action association. Ideologically, Catholic communists view communism as the most effective means of realising Catholic social teaching. They generally accept historical materialism, but usually reject the dialectical materialism and state atheism of Marxism–Leninism.

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