Pope Pius XI stated in the 1930’s that “no one can at the same time be at the same time a sincere Catholic and a true socialist”.
Ultimately this is because we each as individuals are responsible for our own actions, including almsgiving that is required (sermon on the mount) by Christians and Jews.
Shared goods within a religious order in the name of Christ is not the same thing as having an elite powerful government redistributing wealth using its own secular atheist criteria.
By the way, the word nationalism is a suspect word and the word patriotism is a far better description. Nationalism implies Hitler who wanted to take over the world. Patriotism means one loves ones own country and wants the best for it without the connotation that a country feels the need to take over others.
“By the way, the word nationalism is a suspect word and the word patriotism is a far better description. Nationalism implies Hitler who wanted to take over the world. Patriotism means one loves ones own country and wants the best for it without the connotation that a country feels the need to take over others.”
Funny you should mention Hitler and Nationalism, because the Nazis actually HATED the concept of nationalism just as the Bolsheviks hated nationalism, denounced it as “bourgeoise”. Just ask Joseph Goebbels, he’ll tell you in the Dec 6th, 1931 issue of Der Angriff, and I quote, “the NSDAP [Nazi Party] is the German Left. We despise bourgeois nationalism.”
But I definitely agree with the rest of your post.