Oh, I'm afraid that I truly do believe in Marxism, communism and socialism .... I truly believe they are the greatest evil on the surface of the earth today!!!
As for the desecration of any statue or monument for most any reason, within the USA today, I believe those responsible need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, for destruction of public property, sedition, willfully inciting riot and quite possibly treason!
I also believe that we have the technology to actually determine who a majority of these perpetrators are, and they should be gone after to the best of our ability. All of these events are well covered by video, while masks and hood are not as good at keeping anonymity as they once were!
If it's just a case of being removed from view, then that is rather like protective custody, which is wrong in every way, but at least they will still exist to come forward on another day.