Since bodies like the Communist Party are in fact an announcement that some lives at least are shaped inadequately by the laws of a régime like our own, suppression seems to me an indefensible way of meeting that announcement.
Laski defends the existence of groups like the Communist Party, arguing that suppression is an inadequate response to their critique of the state.
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