Secrecy, censorship and propaganda are a great combo if you want to produce awful political outcomes. If you forbid freedom of speech, that's basically the same as saying people are too stupid to make their own decisions. This leads to a China or Soviet style dictatorship to protect the people.
That was always the contention of Bolshevism. The people are too dumb to protect their own interests. The party must be the vanguard of the proletariat to protect their interests. Democracy will be replaced by internal party democracy where only party members will vote.
The party will only make decisions in the people's best interest. Few people study history though so they're unaware that all of this has been tried before with disastrous results. Might as well move to China if you enjoy all your information being tightly curated by the authorities.
It's not China or Russia's fault. It's the consequence of the ideology that says common people are too stupid to make the right choices in their own best interests and there must be an inner group of enlightened know-it-alls that make all their decisions for them that leads to these kinds of totalitarian outcomes.
That was always the contention of Bolshevism. The people are too dumb to protect their own interests. The party must be the vanguard of the proletariat to protect their interests. Democracy will be replaced by internal party democracy where only party members will vote. The party will only make decisions in the people's best interest. Few people study history though so they're unaware that all of this has been tried before with disastrous results. Might as well move to China if you enjoy all your information being tightly curated by the authorities.