English Translation

176.) 2.) What should politics be in the True Democratic Regime I now move on to the second category of accusations and shortcomings of post-war democracy - to the allegations of purely political character. The general view and practical practice of day-to-day politics has very often been quite little of some of the main theses of authoritarian states in the European democracies after the last war. The lack of faith, of one's own principles and the inconsistency with their enforcement, the lack of bourgeois courage, the unacceptable utilitarianism of oppor- tunism, as far as the assertion of democratic principles was concerned, the constant attempts to reach an impossible agreement with the fascist opponents, the classes, the party, and personal egoism, Most of the traps of great political importance, the lack of real knowledge of the concrete international problems, the indifference and recklessness, the factors responsible for taking a position and the most far-reaching decisions in internal and external policy - all this was the daily characteristic of the political life of the euro- European democracies in the last twenty years before the Second World War. The fate that this democracy has gradually achieved has clearly shown how it needs to be, not only