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Thanks again for the continued dialogue.

It's not a theoretical disconnect or prejudice that I've encountered but a vernacular one. I think it's anachronistic to call Jesus a communist, but he's clearly interested in an alternative economics based in communitarian values rather than those based in autonomy. That's not to say by any means that they're not compatible (I would consider myself a liberation theologian), just that the Jesus figure of the Gospels is a bit more slippery than that.

You may be interested in Ward's work. He does a lot with the religious nature of capitalism, and though he comes from the theological side he's highly articulate in discussions of commodification (his dissertation was on Derrida and Karl Barth, and since has done a lot of work in semiotics and Marx). Daniel Bell has written an excellent book as well where he applies Deleuze and Guitarri to liberation theology. Philip Goodchild has written what a friend of mine considers to be the best analysis of money he's read, though I haven't read it myself.