Why Read Zmirak? Here's Why!

John Zmirak is a 'fierce Catholic' kinda guy.  His writings are historically informed, Catholic to the core, and an absolutely vicious counter-puncher when confronting the usual suspects.  

(It would be nice if Republican politicians were anywhere near as vicious.  They don't have to be Catholic--just excellent counter-punchers.)

So what does John have to say about Franny1 and his Marxist-Catholic Unity Proposal?  He starts at the beginning.

...The first such wild, Utopian movement to actually gain power and keep it was the French Revolution, and it produced the worst persecution of Christians in the West since Diocletian. It was in the heady ferment of that revolution that the word “socialism” was coined, and the intellectual ancestors of Karl Marx began to offer secular, pseudo-scientific arguments for a godless New Jerusalem....

Then moves toward the end, where we find that Franny1 is a tiny bit correct:

 ...We must remember that Marx — and like him Marxists — opposed effective reforms that would improve the lives of the needy. [Democrats, beginning with FDR, follow that script to a "T".]  Such half-measures, he scoffed, would merely lull the poor into a false sense of hope and slow down the Revolution. Instead, good Marxists must sow division, encourage class hate, and everywhere sharpen the antagonism and resentments in society — the better to fan a conflagration that would at last be drenched in blood. [Precisely what Obama/Biden and Holder/Garland et. al. are doing today.]  Only after the liquidation of entire social classes and the seizure of absolute power by Marxist ideologues who scoffed at quaint Christian notions such as morality and due process would the New Jerusalem of a classless society with limitless wealth sprout up from the earth which the Marxists had scorched.

So yes, Marxism has Christian DNA, the way that tumors have the DNA of the patient whom they are killing. If Pope Francis really isn’t consciously trying to kill the church, he ought to stop dosing the Body of Christ with carcinogens.

While you're reading Zmirak's essay, take a look at Cohn's The Pursuit of the Millennium he links.  Cohn describes the plot of several somewhat-popular books on that topic.