Found an interesting book on history of socialism/communism written by a mathematics professor in Russian…seems to be an idea espoused by anti-Catholic religion all the way back to Plato. Excerpt below:
“ Interestingly, the name Ranters reappears 150 years later, in the 1820s, when the term was applied to a certain group of Methodists. From their midst came the first organizers of the English trade union movement, men who had acquired the skills of popular orators in the sect. (31: p. 167)
The movement whose members became known as Diggers had sharply defined socialist characteristics. Externally, it expressed itself (beginning in 1649) in the seizure of communal land by small groups of people for joint tillage. This attempt at organizing communes, however, was a mere gesture, which led to no practical consequences, and it was the Diggers’ literary activity that proved to have lasting significance.
Gerrard Winstanley was the most important figure among them. In several pamphlets he proclaimed his basic idea–the illegitimacy of private ownership of land. He reported that he had had a vision, “a voice and a revelation,” and was preaching what had been revealed to him: "And so long as we or any other maintain this civil property, we consent still to hold the creation down under that bondage it groans under, and so we should hinder the work of restoration and sin against light that is given unto us, and so through the fear of the Resh (man) lose our peace. And that this civil property is the curse is manifest thus: those that buy and sell land, and are landlords, have got it either by oppression or murder or theft; and all landlords live in the breach of the seventh and eighth commandments, "Thou shalt not steal nor kill. "(“The True Levellers’ Standard Advanced: or, The State of Community opened, and Presented to the Sons of Men.”) (35: p. 85)
Winstanley viewed trade and money in equally negative terms: “For buying and selling is the great cheat that robs and steals the earth one from another. …We hope,” he says, “that people shall live freely in the enjoyment of the earth, without bringing the mark of the Beast in their hands or in their promise; and that they shall buy wine and milk without money or without price, as Isaiah speaks.” (" A Declaration from the Poor Oppressed People of England.") (35: p. 101)”
Book is:
http://robertlstephens.com/essays/shafarevich/001SocialistPhenomenon.html#pagestart_xi