Communists can see both action and inaction as criminal.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quotes in The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1, a man by the name of Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko, the organizer of the Department of Exceptional Courts of the People’s Commissariat of Justice and therefore the “accuser” in several cases against internal enemies of the Soviet Union: “And even if the defendants here in Moscow did …

Communists focus on “social danger” and not personal guilt.

It’s as if Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn knew in 1973 what would happen to the USA in 2021 under the Biden administration: …the heart of the matter is not personal guilt, but social danger. One can imprison an innocent person if he is socially hostile. And one can release a guilty man if he is socially friendly. …