Pope Francis dead at age 88 ” defended rights of workers “
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Many of his ideas already existed in Latin America before he became a pope and most of them came from Gustavo Gutierrez, who was one of the founder of the Liberation theology and Gustavo Gutierrez also influenced Oscar Romero. The concept of a church of poor and for the poor was the title of a book written by Gutierrez
Gustavo Gutierrez
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/23/gustavo-gutierrez-champion-of-christian-liberation-theology-diesWhile Gutiérrez is the central figure, other influential theologians associated with liberation theology include Juan Luis Segundo (Uruguay), Jon Sobrino and Ignacio Ellacuria (El Salvador), and Leonardo Boff (Brazil).
https://www.leftvoice.org/leo-xiv-a-pope-to-ease-the-decline-of-the-neoliberal-order/
A catholic pope to ease the decline of the Neoliberal order
It looks more like a geopolitical selection, a person which is from the USA, South America and the Caribbean, and with dual citizenship
There is a new conception within the left known as post neoliberalism
The new pope has apparently called himself Leo after pope Leo XIII, best known for his 1891 en cyclical Rerum Novarum on “The Rights and Duties of Capital and Labour” in which he justified private property but also encouraged Catholic trade unions to work for a “just wage”. In effect, accepted capitalism and embraced reformism as opposed to laissez-faire capitalism.
Here is what the American socialist Daniel De Leon wrote about it at the time:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/pdf/1891/1891_jun14.pdf
This is another article of Daniel de Leon about the abolition of property that is the different to the conception of pope Leon XIII, and the new pope is being labelled as a socialist, Pope Francis is not a socialist, and the member of the theology of liberation are not socialists either. They have blessed the private property
https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/pdf/subject/abol_pov.pdfThere is not such thing as a revolutionary pope, all of them are defender of private property and class society, apologist of capitalism have tried to associate liberation theology with Marxism, but that is not true either, they are two different conceptions
This pamphlet describes how religion evolves thru the development of several economic system including capitalismhttps://www.marxists.org/archive/keracher/1929/how-gods-made.htm
The German sociologist Max Weber also described the emergence of protestantism along with the emergence of capitalism, and the association of Ancient Judaism with the mode of production of that historical period
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/13/emju-m13.html
Some right-wing politicians and right-wing populists leaders have called the new pope a Woke Marxist. The thing is that woke and capitalism are compatible, as an article written by the Socialist Party has indicated, but there is nothing of Marxism and socialism in the election of this pope when the prior pope, known as Leon XIII, was an anti socialist.
It is just a geopolitical decision made by the Vatican to promote its expansionist interests around the globe ( similar to the election of Pope Francis ), especially in the Americas, where half of its followers are geographically located, and a great deal of its income comes from that region
He did not even mention prior priests of the liberation theology who supported the class struggles, like Carlos Mugica, Ciera, Oscar Romero, and Gustavo Gutierrez
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