Christian Communism

One common objection to my modern political application of the Early Church's Communism in Acts 2-4 is to say that's merely describing Voluntary Communism and would not imply support for State Enforced Communism or of Abolishing the State in the name of Communism.

If you're also teaching that Christians shouldn't get involved in secular politics at all, that we should be separatists like many of the old Anabaptists, then you can make that argument while remaining intellectually consistent.  But if you're a Dominionist, or an Amillennial/Post-Millennial teaching that the Church is supposed to be ruling the world right now, or that America was founded to be a Christian Nation and should be governed by Christian Values. you can't then ignore the clear evidence that Communism is a Christian Value.

Another objection is to claim this was peculiar to just the Jerusalem Church and we should actually view the Jerusalem Church as a failure.  This is very silly on many levels, there is no Biblical Evidence that other Churches didn't follow the example of the Jerusalem on this.  Roman A. Montero in his book All Things in Common: The Economic Practices of The Early Christians demonstrated from the the historical records that the Early Church continued this practice all through the Pre-Constantine era, it wasn't just the first generation.

The Protestant Reformation did not begin with Martin Luther, many came before him.

The problem with beginning it with Luther is that starting then makes it a very Top-Down Reformation, not just in England, Luther befriended many Princes and Dukes of northern/eastern Germany, and the movement also won over William of Orange and Christina III of Denmark.  Meanwhile in Switzerland Calvin took over Geneva and Zwignly took over Zurich, and the French Hugenots were lead by the Bourbons and the house of Navarre.  What separated Luther from his predecessors was he had the shrewd Political acumen to make his message appealing to the Nobility, and that's why modern Capitalism was largely born out of this Top-Down Reformation.

Luther's Predecessors on the other hand were all Socialist to some degree, all at least teaching that the hoarding of Wealth was incompatible with a Christian Life.  From the Waldensians to the Lollards (like John Ball) to the Hussite movement where Petr Chelčický and the Taborites both taught Communism in different forms.

After Luther came more Communist Protestants like Thomas Muntzer, but Luther was firmly against them, he was in the pocket of the Rich.  And during the English Revolution came Gerrard Winstanly and the Diggers.

It wasn't till the 1700s that Atheists and Deists started forming a Secular version of Communism.