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What gets communists hung up is that they can't separate theory from practice. Sure, in theory if some behavior was outlawed it wouldn't happen. For the communist you can simply outlaw unjust things and that's that: You can outlaw guns and then nobody gets shot. You can outlaw abusing workers and workers are liberated from oppression.
What always strikes me as so odd about communists is that they see our current system of laws. They see that the rich and powerful get away with whatever they want and the peons get the shaft. In fact, the inequity of policing and the justice system are one of their chief complaints. Yet, they somehow believe that bestowing even more of that power upon those who are abusing it now will somehow resolve the issue. I can understand that the theory seems nice, but how can they not acknowledge the reality? That's the part I can't understand.
Communism, and any other utopian collectivist dream are atheistic/humanist religions. They depends on the assumption that people are inherently good and that they only do evil as a result of external factors. So if a group is evil, it must be the fault of those who are resisting participation in the collective and prioritizing components of individual liberty over the perceived "common good". It's a core tenet of their ideology and they cannot allow it to be challenged.
If they accept that people are scumbags and that at least a portion of those people will act on it in the absence of external control or consequence, then they have to accept that man is a fallen being in need of an external savior.
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