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

183.) From what has been said here about democracy, it is clear that democracy in its daily political activity should always be based on three vital factors without which it is senseless: on the democratic conception of work J on science and on truth Above all, democracy means work, great work, above all small work, continuous, persistent, consistent and tense work. The autocrat, the theocratic monarch, the oligarch or the aristocrat commands and rules - the others work, the non-democratic understands the government and the administration in the sense that he gives orders, instructions, regulations - and all others are there to carry them out, all the black.Doing work, The non-Democratic politician is something higher, more chosen; he does not command because he has to bring the principle of the division of labour, organization and leadership to bear fruit in work, but because there are different kinds of work, a higher, for the people decisive, more worthy work, and which he accomplishes; carrying out, governing, commands is here in the essence Niohtarbeit. Another, in its nature of non-democratic politicians, sees politics again in talking, discussing and arguing in the coffee house and in the bar, at the jug in the tavern or in the entertainment in the club or finally in social salons. He combines it mostly with petty politicization, intriguing, with