Kaine is heavily influenced by the thinking of a Marxist ideology, liberation theology, which is closely associated with a Catholic religious order, the Jesuits.
From The Hill:
According to the media, Tim Kaine took a life transforming "mission" trip to Latin America in 1980. Conveniently left out of these stories, are the radical reality of the Cold War in Latin America and Tim Kaine's Soviet sympathizing mentors. In fact, whatever Kaine's intentions, he more likely met Karl Marx than Jesus Christ while there.From the Catholic News Agency:
Connect the dots with a little history, and an alarming picture emerges of Kaine's adventures with radicals and revolutionaries in 1980s Latin America.
Reports indicate that in Honduras, “Mr. Kaine embraced an interpretation of the gospel, known as liberation theology"...
This wasn't mainstream “Catholic thought” at the time. It was a radical, Marxist-based ideology at odds with the Church, the pope, and the United States, but supportive of (and supported by) the Soviet Union.
Born into a Catholic family, Kaine attended the Jesuit prep school Rockhurst High in Kansas City. There he participated in mission drives to fund the Jesuits' activities in Honduras, visiting the country briefly in 1974 to present the proceeds.There are strong indications that the current Pope is in many ways a liberation theologist or at least sympathetic to their views (outside of their calls for violence).
In 2014 he told Rockhurst's newspaper, Prep News Online, that “I vowed to return one day and was able to take a year off law school in 1980-81 to go back and volunteer with wonderful Missouri province Jesuits and their Spanish and Honduran counterparts, who worked hard everyday to live and preach the Good News among the poor in Yoro Province.”
“What I learned that year from the Jesuits and the comunidad put me on a public service path that has now stretched to 30+ years as a civil rights lawyer, teacher and elected official,” he continued...
In a June 7, 2016 interview with C-SPAN, Kaine said that his experience with the Jesuits put him “in a seeker mode where it pushed (him) not to just accept what (he) had been taught” but encouraged him to seek his “own answers.” The Jesuits, he said, were an important part of his transition to adulthood, where he didn’t just accept the answers he was given by what he has described as his devout, Irish Catholic parents....
Dr. Andrés León Araya, a professor of anthroplogy at the University of Costa Rica, has written that the work of the Jesuits in the Aguan valley of northern Honduras “was oriented mainly around organizing and supporting peasant cooperatives.”
“These were all priests influenced by Liberation Theology,” León wrote in his 2015 dissertation for the City University of New York. “They were particularly active in the area of political training, especially through their radio schools – teaching reading and writing as the basis for organization.”...
After an interview with Kaine, Jason Horowitz wrote in the New York Times Sept. 2...He added that Kaine “embraced” liberation theology, saying he told his pastor in Richmond, Va., “that his exposure to liberation theology had 'changed him, it deepened him.'
Thus, if Kaine becomes president, combined with the current Pope, a large portion of the planet is going to be ruled or influenced by liberation theology-type advocates, that is, Marxist, social justice type thinking.
-RW
I think Latin culture is susceptible to Marxism because what they experienced as "capitalism" had nothing to do with free markets and individual rights. American and European "capitalists" had an easy time buying Latin American politicians to get special privileges for their business enterprises. It's crony capitalism without even the pretense of property rights. Under such circumstances, it is easy to see the appeal of Marxism to the peasents.
ReplyDeleteThey're not opposed to capitalism. They are opposed to what they have been wrongly calling capitalism.
This is my theory on how the socialist left has remained control for so many years in both Latin America and Africa. Those who wake up to the fraud that is causing suffering, they are demonized by their governments (if not outright killed or jailed) as being U.S. agents, European neo-colonists or other leftist type smears we hear here in the US. The Marxists in latin america will try to link free market capitalism to authoritarians such as Pinochet. Hopefully with the results of socialism being seen in Venezuela the Marxists in latin America have been dealt a huge blow.
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