Two declarations sum up liberation theology. The first, by Dom Helder’s co-national, Leonardo Boff: “What we are proposing is Marxism and historical materialism in theology.” (9) The second, by the Peruvian, Gustavo Gutiérrez, founding father of the current: “What we mean here regarding liberation theology is the involvement of the revolutionary political process”. (10) Gutiérrez also explains the sense of this involvement: “Only by going beyond a society divided into classes. (…) Only eliminating private property of the wealth created by human work, will we be able to lay down the bases for a more just society. It is for this that the efforts to project a new society in Latin America are tending more and more towards socialism”. (11)
Who is Helder D’Camara?
http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/04/helder-camara-lifetime-of-working.html
“A society divided into classes” is an easy fault to fall into. I even see that worldview on FR. “People have dug themselves into holes, therefore our imperative is to poop on them in those holes.”
Some of that may be hyperbolic bluff but when it is seen often enough it can become common currency of thought.