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The concept of a thief in a society without [[private property]] may be hard to fathom; those branded as thieves simply were [[sociopath]]s lacking the [[collectivist]] mindset and discipline enough to join the party.

The concept of a thief in a society without [[private property]] may be hard to fathom; those branded as thieves simply were [[sociopath]]s lacking the [[collectivist]] mindset and discipline enough to join the party.

==The gulag vs the plantation contrasted==

==The gulag vs, the slave 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.  

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.