That sounds more like a voluntarily communistic religious society than a capitalistic system. It isn't "communistic" in the sense of Communism, but it is in the sense that 'private property' wasn't emphasized, and having all property 'in common' was.
The problem is that this was under real selfless apostles, who could say they were,
But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, (2 Corinthians 6:4-7)
Not Stalin or even any leaders i know of here now.
I understand the disdain people have for corrupt or dysfunctional institutions, but it appears to me that institutions are not only biblical but integral to God’s plans.
The problem is not institutions (an organization founded and operating for a specific purpose), but institutionalization, in which form replaces substance, ritual substitutes for the supernatural, and the institution becomes the security for the people, who thus defend it with cultic devotion. In a word, Roman Catholicism.
And in contrast to her basis for assurance of Truth, the NT church did not begin under the premise of promised perpetual assured infallibility of office for the corporate instruments and stewards of Scripture, as per Rome.
. It isn’t “communistic” in the sense of Communism, but it is in the sense that ‘private property’ wasn’t emphasized, and having all property ‘in common’ was.
The rest were believers but most people were not meant to do church work because some one has to plant and harvest the crops, bring in the fish and everything else we need to do to stay alive.