If you take heart in any way from this, either by virtue of your interpretation or by hoping a hero of yours had similar views to yourself..

Good luck.

Just allow me to point out that trading within a community is still socialism, or at least allows for it. the difference is the divvying up of the profits to either enrich yourself (ultimate capitalism) or enrich the whole defined community (ultimate socialism.)

When Acts 4 etc was supposedly written, travel was far less, so the definition of community, greater good etc was a bit different to now. Indeed different to when Marx defined a nation as a socialist unit, or slightly further back when Adam Smith used a nation as a trading unit.

So, the conundrum of whether Jesus would back Karl or Adam seems to miss the point that neither was a defined concept,as the "unit" was so different.

Mind you, I remember as a kid hearing a bible story of Jesus kicking the crap out of traders in the temple? I think I got that right, or have I been eating cheese before bed time again?