Interesting points. This last one is intriguing because sometimes I think the Church has come around to the side of the socialists, at least where other nation's riches are concerned.
The church seems to support socialism, it just opposes the offical atheism of the Communists.
The Marxist Revolution - Infiltrating the Institutions
Gramsci argued that before there could be any Marxist "revolution", it would be necessary to build up a "counter-hegemony". In other words, a system of values that undermined the oppressor group and that favored the oppressed groups would have to be instilled into the cultural consciousness. The entry points for the insinuation of this altered values system into the dominant culture would be those institutions that we take for granted - schools, churches, businesses, media, as well as art, literature and philosophy. Only by infiltrating these traditional sources of consciousness can the Gramscian revolution overthrow the shackles of the oppressors and usher in a true Marxist revolution.