Something lefty Christians in the US and Canada don't talk about enough is that there's a wide variety of theological attempts to synthesize Marxism and Christianity beyond liberation theology.

E.g., in the Philippines, there's a movement called the "theology of struggle," which is importantly and self-consciously different from liberation theology. It's often (though not always) embedded in the Maoist-led National Democratic Front.

In China, K. H. Ting, one of the main theologians in the development of the "Three-Self Movement" of Christians after the Cultural Revolution, often distinguished the TSM from liberation theology as well; not adversarially, but noting a real difference in context.

In Korea, both North and South, "minjung" theology has created some incredibly inventive dialogical relationships between Christianity and Marxism, including with the Juche ideology of the DPRK--which is pretty wild for a lot of reasons.

There are a lot of other contexts in which this exchange happens: some forms of dalit and other theology in India, theology in Vietnam, and lots of theological innovations across Africa that aren't reducible to or comfortably within liberation theology.

It's important to get a sense of that diversity, I think, both to be true to what these movements and people say about themselves, and also to widen our scope of understanding what's happening in revolutionary situations around the world.

Also, most importantly, it's essential for Christians in the imperial core to go out of our way to see liberating theologies not as locked in one historical moment or geographical space, but to be attentive to how these theologies are still stirring people resisting imperialism.