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Officially there is ‘no objective political or social basis for opposition’ in the GDR since the working class is the main productive force in society and exercises political power with the aim of improving the material and cultural quality of life for the whole population. Opposition is thus only meaningful in bourgeois states, and here it comes typically from communist and workers’ parties (1).
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Woods, R. (1986). The Official East German View. In: Opposition in the GDR under Honecker, 1971–85. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08032-8_1
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