It is an established fact, and even the supporters of  today’s economic order themselves do not deny it, that present social relations are irreconcilable with the tenets of Christianity in the first century BC.

Even the Essenian sect, founded long before the birth of Christ, considered collective life and the abolition of private property the highest goal.

The Essenians lived on the Southern coast of the deserted and bleak Dead Sea, in a community of about 4000.  They lived mainly from agriculture and produced only the most basic goods.  They had no slaves because they regarded slavery as unnatural, as all men were created equal and were brothers and sisters by nature.

The Essenias disdained wealth, and collected neither gold nor silver.  Goods and possesssions belonged to everyone and were handled by the stewart, often they lived under the same roof as one another, while those with their own house kept the doors open for their brothers and sisters at all times, because their hospitability was infinite.

Moderation, honesty and purity of morals - these were the highest virtues for them.
Who could not recognize here the germ of socialism. Brotherly love, collective cultivation and use of the land and parcels, an aspiration to truth and law.

It is, however, scientifically irrefutable that the first Chrisitian communities were built on the principle of the  collective ownership of goods. 
In the Acts of the Apostles we read, word for word, the following: “All the believers were one in heart and mind.  Noone claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had.”

This is from the Acts: “… and much grace was upon them all.  There were no needy persons among them.”

What a fruitless effort!  Since by shaking the prestige of the church, a sign was given to fight for secular authority.

This fight was taken up by Thomas Munzern (beheaded in 1525).  He derived a belief in political equality from the equality of trust in God and from the principle of Christian fraternity.