“Leftists see crime as a tool to exact change.”
Solzhenitsyn made a similar observation about the ‘blatnye’ or career criminals in the labor camps of the gulag.
The Party viewed them as class allies to destroy the political prisoners whom they were given licence to oppress because they shared the Party’s attitude toward private property.
The thieves in return referred to Stalin as ‘the Great Day Thief’.
Damned auto-correct/complete!
“Day” was inserted for who knows where.
Good observation and parallel…spot on. One of my.special favored books. Probably read it five times now.