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

207.) to be aware of the evil qualities and tendencies of political parties just as they must be aware that the political parties are the citizen's freedom and are simply indispensable for democracy. Therefore, there is no point in supporting them or speaking against their existence. One simply has to take note of the necessity of their existence and proceed politically in such a way that the evil resulting from them is given a minimum. The life of a political party is struggle. The principle of the majority in the elections and parliamentary votes gives it almost the absolute maoht and the freedom, in the state and in the community according to its will, to act completely without backwardness on anyone or to submit to the same arbitrariness of the opposing party. For this reason, if the party is to make its main demands stand out, it must want the majesty and the rule; and if it is in government, it has the innate tendency to exploit its acquired power as much as possible. This means that it has the constant tendency to be jerkless, against others absolutistisah and almost despotisoh This recklessness, roughness and irrepressible self-interest in the party as a whole, as well as in the members of the Party as individuals, this tendency towards dictatorship, is of course the greatest concern to the political party system. And it is expressed only in the political institutions, but also wherever the party system goes and where the simple principle of the egalitarian majority deposes.