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When I say "early christianity" I guess I basically mean the parts of Acts where everyone would join and sell all their possessions, and the "church" (still a small Jewish sect) was using the funds to help widows and other disadvantaged folks. At least, that is how it was described in Acts
Jesus himself - not a socialist really. I mean, some of his parables are based in capitalism (Parable of the Talents, Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard). He definitely became political, even if he didn't mean to. Ofc, I don't really trust the gospels as a historical account.
Worth keeping in mind that the material conditions for socialism and capitalism didn't exist. You could argue that Rome had some proto-capitalist stuff going on, I guess. But the communal nature of a lot of early christian and later christian heretic sects was an important part of developing the ideas that eventually resulted in communism.