Back in the dark days of the Soviet Union, dissidents risked being locked up – but not, officially at least, on the grounds that they had committed a political crime. In the Soviet regime’s imagination, treason and mental illness were often two sides of the same coin. Here’s a brief description from Wikipedia of the phenomenon: The KGB [the
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La patologización del disenso no va a desaparecer. Se intensificará a medida que el neoliberalismo enfrente crisis tras crisis y crezca la polarización social. Aquellos que dicen ser liberales que defienden la democracia pronto estarán demasiado listos para apagarla.