The parallel is not only deniable, it is farcical. Jesus and the early Christians did NOT use government power to force dissenters to obey, but that is exactly what government programs do. If you want to define "communism" as not using government or any such sort of police enforcement, fine, but that's not at all the common definition. All early Christians used ---voluntary--- relationships to share wealth. The entire point of communism & socialism is that they are ---involuntary---, which is why they often lead to mass murder.