Three years later in an interview to an Italian journal, Pope John Paul II said, «The proponents of extreme capitalism in any form tend to overlook the good things
achieved by communism, the struggle against unemployment and the concern for the poor».
The totality in Marxism is
achieved by society's reconstitution of Christianity; in Teilhard the same alienation of the secular from the sacred is overcome, and the same totality is erected — but
by extending the influence of Christianity into all sciences, social movements (including
communism) and other agencies of human perfection.