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

189.) a whole large comylated organizational and ritual plan. The political parties also need a large organizational apparatus; it is a leader, chairman, vice-chairman, secretaries, organisers, trustees, etc. The more complicated the political attitudes, the stronger the internal organization needs the party, the more intensive the 4 leadership needs them, and the leaders, underleaders and organisers gain greater importance and autonomy; the party bureaucratizes, develops itself as the state's apparatus of worship, i.e., it oligo- ies sehta In the end, almost all of the essential questions of the party - including democratic ones - are dissociated in the daily life of a certain kind of oligarohy. This party apparatus is then one of the main factors of the political life of the whole state at all. The creation of the so-called party apparatus, the party secretariat and the trust men with all their well-known good and not good ruffles in political life results from all this by itself. The inner tendency of the organized groups, the inexhaustible and inevitable tendency to olichize, is bewildered by a number of factors. Leadership means governance, and it lies in the egoistic human nature that it longs for power and rule; so it has always been and will always be, some want to rule from innate, more or less vuigar egoism and have power; but there are also many