Basically, what that soldier that had gone AWOL had been saying, is that if we ever needed or wanted something, we can just go up to people like him and simply take it from him. And if he resists, well he just turned a simple snatch and grab into a beatdown, or worse...
Perhaps if self-proclaimed "Communists" begin to be treated in this exact fashion, they will realize how stupid, as well as highly dangerous to their health and safety, their cult is to them...