English Translation

184.) Associations, meetings and disputes about personal things. This too is not a democratic policy - it is a political fort and a political threshing of empty straw, personal contact, personal negotiation, talking, public gatherings and discussing are, however, a very essential and necessary part of political work; but it is only part of it, and if they are not connected with the other necessary components of de- mocrati- cal political work, it is vain, warless and democratic political forastry. But the Democrat really works, works hard and much, and on the basis of the principle of division, organization and maintenance of work. If he does a job, he does it not because it is a higher and more worthy work, but because it involves a rational division of labour between the individual political factors. He carries out * one work today, tomorrow the other, perhaps the lowest, and it is precisely through this that he understands how to consecrate all political and social work. He does the work or those according to the conditions and eye-catchers, according to political situation and, however, he did the skills on which the division and organization of political work should always depend. Democracy has, as we can see, a completely different view of the work at all and of the political work in particular, than of the arbstocracy.