Catholic cardinal: Karl Marx is a source of Catholic social teaching

Cardinal Reinhard Marx has given an interview to the German Sunday newspaper the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on the occasion of the 200th birthday of the philosopher with whom he shares a surname: Karl Marx, the theoretical father of scientific socialism and inspiration of Communist regimes the world over. In his interview, the cardinal — who is himself in the vanguard of progressive thought inside the Roman Catholic Church — pays tribute to the creator of Marxism. “We are all on the shoulders of Karl Marx” he said. “Without Karl Marx, there would be no Catholic social teaching.” According to the cardinal, Karl Marx showed that human rights remain incomplete without the material well-being of people, and he praised Marx for paying attention to the real conditions of the people. -- MORE....