English Translation

11.) is my first conclusion in this chapter on the theory of Pasahism and National Socialism and their relationship to democracy. The second main point I would like to stress is the view of the almighty state in the authoritarian systems and the rejection of this conception by democracy. Fasohism, National Socialism and, indeed, Communism are anti-individualistic in their basic teachings. Pir is to be the primary idea and the main consciousness, the consciousness of social collectivity, not the individual consciousness. The social collectivity - whether party or society or people or state - must be regarded as a reason - and the highest element of social coexistence. In its capacity, its life together and its development, the individual is dependent on this collectivity and originates from it. It is primary, the individuals secondary. Democracy, on the other hand, is individualistic. Democracy does not originate from the collective consciousness, but from the consciousness of the individualitgt of the one and therefore sees the human being as primary and functional, and every social collectivity, since it consists of individual, is secondary. The authoritarian systems regard their collective bodies - the parties, the people, the state - as primer and all-powerful, and the devolution and freedom of the indi- viduum are their collectivist conception of the