A man has a right to own property and God forbids others from stealing it from him. Communism and Socialism have their roots in Atheism. Pure communism says everyone owns alike. Socialism says the state owns the property and people just use it. In such societies there is no room for God or for man ' s initiative, and the desire to get ahead is quenched.
Man becomes a machine and nothing else.
In the Old Testament, we find that God ' s greatest men owned property. The children of Israel inherited the Promised Land and the property was divided among them. In the New Testament, we learn that all property is given to us by God. Property is obtained by the free gift of another person, by toil, or by theft. This commandment recognizes the first two and forbids the third.