WakWak on Nostr: Correct. The early Christians could not possibly have been Marxists as Marx himself ...

Correct. The early Christians could not possibly have been Marxists as Marx himself was born centuries later, but it is an example of Christian ethics found in Marxism.

Contextually, they were talking about a point far into the future when society as a whole willingly adopts this principle as the rule being the point when communism has been fully realized & the need for a state becomes superfluous because at that point society would truly be capable of governing itself.