Communism dehumanizes individuals.

Look at what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about political interrogations of orthodox Communists in the time of Joseph Stalin:

If you are an orthodox Communist, then another orthodox Communist will sidle up to you, peering about with hostile suspicion, and he’ll begin to whisper in your ear so that the uninitiated cannot overhear:

“It’s our duty to support Soviet interrogation. It’s a combat situation. We ourselves are to blame. We were too softhearted; and now look at all the rot that has multiplied in the country. There is a vicious secret war going on. Even here we are surrounded by enemies. Just listen to what they are saying! The Party is not obliged to account for what it does to every single one of us [emphasis added] — to explain the whys and wherefores. If they ask us to, that means we should sign.”

The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1, pp 128-129

Soviet-style detention of those present at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021

Julie Kelly has written about the detention of those present in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The U.S. Department of Justice has kept all arrestees — even those charged with no violent crimes — in solitary confinement in a squalid D.C. jail for 23 hours a day for many months. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote how Joseph Stalin treated political prisoners in the same way:

The loneliness of the accused! That was one more factor in the success of unjust interrogation! The entire apparatus threw its full weight on one lonely and inhibited will. From the moment of his arrest and throughout the entire shock period of the interrogation the prisoner was, ideally, to be kept entirely alone. In his cell, in the corridor, on the stairs, in the offices, he was not supposed to encounter others like himself [sic], in order to avoid the risk of his gleaning a bit of sympathy, advice, support from someone’s smile or glance. The Organs did everything to blot out for him his future and distort his present: to lead him to believe that his friends and family had all been arrested and that material proof of his guilt had been found.

The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1, p 123

Marxism today replaces class with race.

The self-avowed Marxists who founded Black Lives Matter have replaced Joseph Stalin’s “What is his class?” with “What is his race?” today. As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote:

The theoretical view of the suspect’s guilt was, incidentally, quite elastic from the very beginning. In his instructions on the use of Red Terror, the Chekist M. I. Latsis wrote: “In the interrogation do not seek evidence and proof that the person accused acted in word or deed against Soviet power. The first questions should be: What is his class, what is his origin, what is his education and upbringing? (There is your Sapropelite Committee for you!) These are the questions which must determine the fate of the accused.”

The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1, pp 96-97