English Translation

146.) Theses about the state ánti-individualist. The basic idea and the basic consciousness of each individual should, according to their point of view, be the social consciousness, the consciousness of the stately coliektivity and not the individual consciousness, The social (and stately) collectivitüt must be taken as a fundamental and sovereign element of social cohabitation. In its activity, its cohabitation and its development, the Individaum is dependent on this collectiveness and originates from it. It is primary, the individual is secondary. As I have explained and emphasized above, the philosophical and sociological basis of the democracy that comes from the philosophy of spiritualism is against individualism Democracy in its theory and political practice does not go from the collective consciousness aw, but from the consciousness of the individual individual's individualities and sees the human being as primary and the fundamental and social collectivity (and in particular the state) as secondary. In Communism, too, the development and freedom of the individual are subordinated to the collectivist conception of human society, and the state and the comunist society in their omnipotence and sovereignty are the most visible and supreme yardstick for all values, including moral and spiritual values. There is so much propensity for the individual to sacrifice himself back to the state and society.