STEPHEN COUGHLIN: BTW, the USCCB is not only part of the mass line strategy but also among its original architects, especially the Archdiocese of Chicago.

It is worth noting - actually warning - that this is how Maoist Mass Line narratives are generated in 'long march' strategies designed to culminate at some later point. The time to challenge then is now.

This woman is intolerant of dissent. Western Marxism adopted Mao's "Long… https://t.co/yD2i1XmvOY pic.twitter.com/hJCK2l6z5P

— Stephen Coughlin (@S_Coughlin_DC) April 25, 2026 

from Stephen Coughlin,

It is worth noting - actually warning - that this is how Maoist Mass Line narratives are generated in 'long march' strategies designed to culminate at some later point. The time to challenge then is now. This woman is intolerant of dissent. Western Marxism adopted Mao's "Long March" strategy back in the 70's. Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance" is a part of that.

BTW, the USCCB is not only part of the mass line strategy but also among its original architects, especially the Archdiocese of Chicago. (For example, Aux Bishop Schiels working with Saul Alinsky, 1909-1972, in the "Back of the Yards" in the 1930s).

Alinsky's work started in the 1930s, and his influence via community organizing all the way through to Cesar Chavez, 1927-1993, who started his work in 1962 in Delano, is something.  I mean he is the protege for communist action.

In 1938, he undertook his first community organizing campaign in a working-class area of Chicago; the result was the Back of the Yards Council, which became a prototype for a generation of community organizations. In 1940, Alinsky founded the Industrial Areas Foundation and trained cadres of organizers in his techniques. Following wartime service in several federal agencies, Alinsky and his IAF team carried their techniques to communities  throughout the country; the Community Service Organization in California provided early training for Cesar Chavez, who went on to found the United Farm Workers of America. 

Gots to admit that I've never contemplated the connection of the Catholic Church to community and then to union organizing.  What a maroon I've been. 

from "A Return to Catholic Action," Father Bruce Nieli, June 29, 2015.  The adoring tones toward Barack Obama are sickening.

With the strong support of Cardinal George Mundelein and his auxiliary bishop, Bernard James Sheil, the Back of the Yards Council provided a voice for the immigrant communities of that impoverished neighborhood. They collaborated with community organizer and activist Saul Alinsky, whose friendship with Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain and collaboration with Catholic Church leaders would enrich subsequent community organizing efforts. (Even Archbishop Giovanni Montini, the future Blessed Pope Paul VI, would confer with Alinsky on community organizing in Italy.) 

This example of grassroots social justice, of collective listening to the cry of the poor, would have the principles of Catholic Action as its philosophical and theological base. The future U. S. president was a student and practitioner of this philosophy and theology. It is no accident that Obama’s first office was located in a Catholic church.