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

15.) Freedom must fight and that he can fight for this equality again only in a regime of relative political freedom, i.e. in some form of democracy. In no authoritarian system of human history was there and could there be a solute, constant, balanced relationship between the individual and the collectivity - for that would be in opposition to the being and nature as such a system itself. On the other side, therefore, after this fundamental inscription of the conflict between authoritarian regimes and denocracy, I will give very briefly a single basic thesis of fascism and National Socialism from the standpoint of the main principles that I have just outlined. 2.) The theory of fascism a) Fascistism as a reaction and negation of the political doctrines of the l9th year. Italienisohe fascism and faschism as doctrine in general is based on a philosophical foundation which was so characteristic for a large part of the world of thought at the beginning of the 20th century and which, in broad outlines, expresses its distinctive character to the political struggle in Europe after the war: the aversion against all lasting and eternal true Verte, the apathy against every universalism, the dislike against a universal, universal, all-human. the whole of humanity and all times valid morality, the aversion against reason and against every rationalism and