Ideologies that highly prize thugs are always like that.
Sholzenytsen put his finger on the fundamental problem with Communism. As your degree of guilt declines the punishments increased. You saw that signature in the idea that someone who missed one monthly payment for his medical insurance ought to be tagged with a $250,000 penalty and jail time.
Communists have killed 70 million in China and about 40 million in Russia (depending on source). Then there’s the 6 million in Germany from those socialists. And a few million more by Pol Phot using the same tactics.
But I guess those don’t count.