CNL book on Compendium

Research whether the impression is justified that the publication "A Commentary on the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church" by the "Christians for National Liberation" is primarily a criticism of the Catholic Church's document "Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church" as being too supportive of capitalism

Short answer: Yes — that impression is justified. The CNL volume is explicitly framed as a Marxist-informed, sustained critique of the Vatican’s Compendium, repeatedly arguing that Catholic social teaching has been (and still is) slanted toward capitalism and anti-Marxism and calling for a socialist alternative. (Foreign Languages Press)

What the sources show (evidence + brief quotes)

• The book itself (foreignlanguages.press PDF) lays out chapter titles and a structure that foregrounds capitalism as the central problem: chapters on “the contradiction between capital and labor,” “monopoly capitalist globalization,” and a section declaring that only when “monopoly capitalism … would be replaced by scientific socialism” can major problems be solved. (Foreign Languages Press)
• Early in the commentary the authors say one of their objectives is “to help correct the nearly two-century old anti-Marxist attitude and partiality of the Christian Churches for capitalism,” i.e. an explicit, stated aim to rebut what they see as the Church’s pro-capitalist partiality. (Foreign Languages Press)
• The text also states the CNL is “critical of how hatred of atheism and communism has been used to limit and slant the social doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church in favor of monopoly capitalism,” which is a direct formulation of the exact charge you mentioned. (Foreign Languages Press)
• Context: the volume is published by Foreign Languages Press and presented as a CNL (Christians for National Liberation) collective work tied to the Philippine National Democratic movement; forewords and appended remarks (e.g., by Jose Maria Sison and CNL founding members) confirm the authors’ revolutionary/Marxist political orientation and explain the commentary’s goal of reinterpreting Church teaching from that standpoint. (Foreign Languages Press)

Nuance to keep in mind

• Although the central thrust is a political/economic critique, the book frames its argument theologically as well — it repeatedly invokes biblical/social-teaching themes (preferential option for the poor, common good, universal destination of goods) and says it aims to “contextualize and reinterpret” the Compendium for Philippine conditions, not merely to sloganeer. That means the critique is both political and theological rather than purely polemical. (Foreign Languages Press)
• The CNL is an explicitly anti-imperialist, left-wing Christian grouping; their reading is therefore partisan and intended to promote an alternative synthesis of Christianity and Marxism. Readers should expect ideological framing rather than a neutral academic commentary. (Wikipedia, Foreign Languages Press)

Conclusion (concise)

• The impression is justified: the CNL commentary’s primary purpose is to criticize the Compendium for being insufficiently critical of capitalism (and, in their view, effectively partial to it) and to argue for socialist alternatives rooted in their interpretation of Christian teaching. The text itself states this aim and organizes large parts of the book around that critique. (Foreign Languages Press)

If you want, I can:

• Pull and annotate the most relevant passages (short excerpts + exact page references) that support each of the bullet claims above; or
• Compare specific paragraphs from the Compendium with the CNL rebuttals so you can see point-by-point how the CNL construes the Compendium as pro-capitalist. Which would be more useful?