English Translation

134.) The whole crisis is now being solved again by the Second World War, which emerged directly from power-political conflicts between the current European powers and from ideologisoh struggles between the three current political-social systems - liberal democracy, fasohism - nationalism and Soviet socialism. And the final question, however, is as follows: What degree of future development will this have and what kind of sohicksal will the democracy achieve as a political and social system, which until now has indisputably been regarded as the most culturally mature political regime? Already the last world war was not only apolitical, but also a social and sittli- cal revival in its foigen and has accelerated the whole of the previous devolution.The second world war will be, as I have already pointed out here, to a far higher extent and will give the development completely determined, end-use-like bbrmen. The liberade bourgeois democrats from the war of the year I9l4, from the twenties-year-old swamps between the first and the second world war with the fascist and the Nazis tota- lim- isms for their own political conception of society on the one hand and with communism for its economic and scial conception of the new society onthe other hand, and clearly must learn a thorough lesson from the experiences of the Second World War and its future fabs, it is by