The Story of Bad Bishop Brown

From The Jacobian-

The US Episcopal Church excommunicated Bishop William Brown on May 31, 1924. His heresy was communism.

Marxists of a non-sectarian bent are prepared to work with others who also fight oppression and exploitation, including people motivated by religious convictions. In specific campaigns and movements, such collaboration does not require concessions of political principle.

But the prized presence of vicars or, better still, bishops as symbols of respectability on platforms at rallies has also been associated with the pursuit of political influence by sacrificing militancy and class struggle to liberal sensitivities. This tendency is grounded in the traditions of early twentieth Century reformist social democracy and Communists’ Popular Front policies during the second half of the1930s.

More here-

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/bishop-brown-episcopal-church-communism-marxism-liberation-theology/