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==Marxist theory==
==Marxist theory==
Prisoners fell basically into two groups: political prisoners and thieves. While political prisoners or dissenters were considered enemies of the revolution or enemies of the people, under Marxist [[class warfare]] theory thieves were considered victims of [[bourgeois]] society and the propertied class. Thieves are considered "class allies" of socialism, and not enemies of the state or people. Hence a single thief was often deliberately placed within a group of political prisoners to sow mistrust and chaos and as a precaution against organized resistance.
Prisoners fell basically into two groups: political prisoners and thieves. While political prisoners or dissenters were considered enemies of the revolution or enemies of the people, under Marxist [[class warfare]] theory thieves were considered victims of [[bourgeois]] society and the propertied class. Thieves are considered "class allies" of socialism, and not enemies of the state or people. Hence a single thief was often deliberately placed within a group of political prisoners to sow mistrust and chaos and as a precaution against organized resistance.
==The Gulag vs the plantation contrasted==
Solzhenitsyn pointed out that the Soviet slave system was unlike the [[slavery]] in the [[American South]], were slaves were allowed to marry and live in family units, although the threat of family separation certainly was used to enforce compliance with the system of forced labor; victims of the [[Marxist]] ideology were permanently separated from all extended family and lived in barracks under a prison regime, where even their toilet habits were strictly supervised and regulated.
American blacks ate well in the agricultural setting, raised chickens for meat, and had their own plots of land for fruits and vegetables; Marxist victims were fed a bowl of slop at the end of the work day, and the daily bread ration was often cut due to government corruption, bureaucratic mismanagement, or budgetary concerns.
Unlike Southern plantations, the practice of religion was forbidden.
==Rehabilitation==
==Rehabilitation==