Tolerated internal factions remain toothless when denied real power.

Evidence

The leadership allowed opinion platforms and even financed them to some degree, paying for the travel of platform representatives and their speaker fees. Nevertheless, these remained amorphous and informal, more like groups sharing similar opinions than organized political factions, largely because they were more concerned with building links with regional party organizations than with directly fighting over party policy. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 591

Categorization

• XREF: Contrast with SDL and Polish cases where platforms were actively manipulated/purged — shows a spectrum of elite control over internal dissent. — connects to: Mass institutions remain hollowed out even amid revived political energy; Universal anti-capitalist discontent stays inert without an organizing agent. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1645; Toothless truth commissions still provoke military establishment backlash — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 323

Broader Connections

• Mass institutions remain hollowed out even amid revived political energy #corroborates (0.85)