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I'm feeling pretty good about my assessment of Pope Francis' Exhortation. Here's what I wrote earlier this month after Rush Limbaugh said the Exhortation was "Marxism":

I'm pretty sure Rush is way off base to call him a “pure Marxist.” I haven't seen any reference in the document about how government should help bring about more quality, and he repeatedly affirms the responsibility of individuals, businesses, and society as a whole to assist in this as well . . . which no Marxist would ever propose. Link.

Here's what Pope Francis recently said about what he meant:

I wasn't speaking from a technical point of view, what I was trying to do was to give a picture of what is going on. The only specific quote I used was the one regarding the “trickle-down theories” which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and social inclusiveness in the world. The promise was that when the glass was full, it would overflow, benefitting the poor. But what happens instead, is that when the glass is full, it magically gets bigger nothing ever comes out for the poor. This was the only reference to a specific theory. I was not, I repeat, speaking from a technical point of view but according to the Church's social doctrine. This does not mean being a Marxist.” Link.