A Word for the Dissidents

The crisis in the Communist countries is a permanent one. It may flare up at some moments and die down at others, but it now seems to be built into the very structure of that society. For their own survival and comfort, the party bureaucrats do not wish a return to open terror—besides, it creates an atmosphere inhospitable to a modern economy. But to retain their monopoly of power, they cannot allow voices of dissidence to cohere into an organized opposition or to reach the masses of the pe...