English Translation

141.) Doubtful attempts were to deny today's war conflict for the existential preservation of bourgeois democracy - at all costs - the struggle for survival. These aspirations stem from the notions that liberal democracy would not choose fascism or com- municism if it wanted to save anything from its positions at all, and that war with fassism and Nazism could also bring about its fall in possible social post-war revolutions. Since the year I932, all conservative units of bourgeois democracy have sought, almost without exception, refuge in compromises with fascism against communism. It was a fatal error and today's war has shown this with full clarity. The democrats, in order to save themselves and their honour, should remain faithful to the spirit of democracy, whatever it might have been. In the preceding chapters, he explained why it is not possible to live together between democracy and the Nazi and fascist dictatorships.There is no single essential political idea, no single fundamental moral principle in which they could agree or at least tolerate each other. That is why there must be a struggle between them, as I have pointed out above, until it has been quenched to the end and revered by today's war. If democracy wins, fascism falls, if fassism wins, democracy falls; an undisputed result of the war would result in a short-term crisis.