Are any supporters of the SSPX socialists?

[FiveLinden]

I understand that in general the SSPX confines itself to religious issues and that its members and supporters are free to adopt whatever economic and political views they wish, within the confines of church tradition.

Using the word ‘socialism’ to mean the sort of economic policies generally supported by Labour parties in the Anglo world and by Social Democrats elsewhere, are there any notable SSPX people who are ‘socialists’?

P.S. I’m hoping this won’t get sidelined by a discussion based on 19th-century uses of the word ‘socialist’.

 

[GordonP]

I understand that in general the SSPX confines itself to religious issues and that its members and supporters are free to adopt whatever economic and political views they wish, within the confines of church tradition.

On paper, maybe, but in real life that doesn’t even get lip service. From its inception, the SSPX has strongly identified with a range of reactionary and far-right political ideologies which are totally incompatible with social democracy, or socialism as you defined it.

Politically engaged SSPX members and adherents are almost always strong supporters of far-right and alt-right political movements, like the National Front in France, for example. They may support mainstream conservative parties as a matter of practicality or expediency, but that is not where their heart lies.

 

[FiveLinden]

Thank you Gordon for making this not quite my least successful thread ever. You and I must be the only people in the Venn diagrammatic overlap between socialism and the SSPX! Oh well…