THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1270, sig. 110-12/96

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English Translation

148.) Philosophical contradictions between spiritualist democracy and materialist fascism - never give a unity in the human view as long as free human thought and research will exist. There are two directions of philosophical frenzy that have existed since the first times of the lower phöloso- phical thinking, and it is not possible to resolve the dispute with definite validity, it is therefore necessary to take note of this fact and to incorporate in these two politisoh social systems the freedom of thought and research, freedom of philosophy and of understanding. Respecting science On the other hand, these two systems have an equal basis for a whole series of conceptions and philosophical and moral bases: by recognizing the equality of men and peoples, they are universalistic, humanistic, international and pacifist by showing the commonality of science and of dignity for all men and women. Peoples recognize that they are rationalistic and intellectualistic The common and equal welfare of all peoples and of all nations is to them the standard of all social and public morality. Starting from its theoretical preconditions of historical and economic materialism, which grasps all historical and economical development as a struggle of the social classes for political power and for bread, communism theoretically and soviet socialism practically tries to bring about its socialist