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this argument is not so strong though the issue there was that they were doing business in the temple. There are many many verses and themes in Jesus's teaching, the rest of the new testament, and old testament that while capitalism didn't yet exist to criticise very explicitly critique and reject the moral and philosophical basis for capitalism.
And while Socialism didn't exist yet a lot of proto-socialist groups and movements such as the 1381 peasants revolt and diggers (who are arguably the origin of anarchism) had explicit Christian origins so similarities between Christian religious values and Socialist values are no coincidence