@wdlindsy I’d say in relative terms perhaps he stood in the liberation stream, but his heavy use of feudal values and terminology throughout the parables etc are what keeps feudal/monarchic ideas thriving today, in fact, the only continual uncritical cultural support of that value system. (Even most western fantasy, while glorifying those systems and lifestyles still usually assumes basic values of equality, which we take for granted, but haven’t always been ubiquitous.)
We can’t really know what Jesus himself said, however, as the providence of the gospels is difficult to trace, and what survived in canon was chosen by (Emperor) Constantine and later distorted by actual monarchs. My jury is still out as to what kind of person Actual Jesus was (if he existed at all), and there’s plenty of evidence in my mind that at best, he was a run-of-the-mill cult leader, disruptive for sure as many of them are, but perhaps not coming from as pure motives as is claimed.