You beat me to it. The absolute First Thought that went through my mind was Liberation Theology....
If you want to check up on a real wacko, look at some of the writing by Manning Marable. Noam Chomsky is a weirdo, along with a truckload of other liberal nut jobs. One of the big time Old Money guys (an economist -- name eludes me at this second) is a control-oriented Socialist.
The Left is totally insane. Throw the "anti family" agenda into the mix and you have a really strange world view.
They all worship other "gods"
I just remembered: John Kenneth Galbraith. Here are some quotes, although he has more "winners" than these:
"The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not."
"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative."
"It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state."
Interesting article on Galbraith.
http://www.mises.org/story/489
I am willing to bet that Hanoi Jane agrees with Galbraith and would probably take things a step further (outright Communism).