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

155.) Spiritualism and sociological subjectivism with all its blemishes on the other hand - reconciliation is not possible and in both cases only mutual tolerance must be requested, it must be noted that the post-war democracy in the second category of the subordinate state - in questions of practical social and economic construction of the postwar society - is substantially reformed and must have the courage to significant sd c e Vat en property and in the sense of socialization - A third category of essential differences between the system of Soviet socialism and post-War democracy concerns the fundamental problem of the Marxist theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat. It is in the nature of the denocracy that it is and must be against any form of dictatorship, and therefore also against this dictatorship. Above all, however, I would like to stress that I believe it is right for the democrats to recognise objectively that there is a significant difference between the fascist dictatorships and the so-called dictatorship of the proletariat, as defended in the system of Soviet socialism. Qni bene distinguit, bene docet. The dictatorship of the Proletåriates in the Marxist-Leninististist view is a theoretically passing dictatorship - it is to be carried out only in the revolutionary transitional period between the carrying out of the revolution of the proletariat against bourgeois society and the