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Because Communist governments see any opposition to communism as a threat to their power, so they do not tolerate dissidence even if they claim to tolerate dissidence. It’s just another example of the paradox of tolerance.

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Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
How is freedom and self-improvement “opposition to Communism?” Do you have the slightest idea what you’re talking about?

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- SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It might not be opposition to communism the way Marx envisioned it, but it is absolutely opposition to communism the way communist governments have envisioned it
  
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  - Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    How?
    
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    SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Look up East Germany for one of the milder examples.
    
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