[Petronski]

Anytime a person is told to put their interests aside for the purported good of a group, I smell the rot of socialism.

Some would argue that Christ asked us to do just that.

[neutrino]

Some would argue that Christ asked us to do just that.

There is, I think, a profound difference between "asked" and "told".

But aside from that semantic difference, I note that most (perhaps all?) communities - even Christian - based on a communistic or socialistic model have failed. The various monastic organizations seem to be an exception, but they bring in only a select group of people. They do not seem to be (nor intend to be) a general model for everyone.