political dissent
Challenging government positions
Political dissent is public disagreement with government policies, actions, or authority.
It ranges from peaceful protest and critical speech to civil disobedience: The regime tolerated no political dissent.
Democratic societies generally protect political dissent as a right; authoritarian ones suppress it.
Her political dissent cost her a career in government.
- samizdatClandestine dissident publishing
- dissidentsPolitical objectors
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- peaceful protestNonviolent collective expression of dissent
- taking to the streetsPublicly gathering in protest
civil disobedience · free speech · censorship · thought crime · revolution · regime change · activists · whistleblowers · demonstration · freedom of speech · press freedom · sedition · satire · exile · Arab Spring · public debate · authoritarianism · repression
- political oppositionopposition party, opposition leader, minority party, minority leader, loyal opposition
- political repressionsecret police, show trials, state terror, police state, sedition laws
- East German crimesborder crossing, defection, escape attempts, Stasi, samizdat
- underground pressunderground newspapers, underground press, samizdat, alternative press, radical press
- Chomskyuniversal grammar, Chomsky hierarchy, minimalist program, competence, performance
- social movementscivil rights movement, women's liberation, labor movement, feminist movement, suffrage movement
political dissentcompliance
Adhering to requirements
conformism · groupthink · consensus · assent · acquiescence
political dissentloyalty
Faithful commitment to another
allegiance · fealty · obedience · conformity · party loyalty
political dissentacquiescence
Unresisting acceptance
apathy · political apathy · quiescence · docility · tacit consent