THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1270, sig. 110-12/96

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225.) State sultry If, therefore, the evil consequences of partyism are to be restricted in the future post-war democracy, the first way to do so is to admonish the number of political parties.The admonition of the political parties or even the suppression of their existence - except for their own totalitarian party - is to carry out the authoritarian regimes by force and with the stated objectives, not to tolerate any criticism of the regime and to suppress all political freedoms at all• It is an essential part of all its Party doctrine and system, as we have already stated above, and it means the simple absolutisms of a single party in the state without control and without any guarantees, but the totalitarian parties have all bad qualities of the democratic parties to a far greater extent than it is in democracy itself and therefore become automatically the simple tool of the worst tyranny. They can avoid the exuberance of the coalition system and its consequences: they themselves are the absolute masters and therefore do not need to communicate with anyone. In the system of Soviet socialism, the problem of the party system is fundamentally different from that of the other two social-political regimes. According to Marxist theory, the formation of the so-called political parties is or should be exclusively the expression of class struggles in bourgeois capitalist society; only classes and interest groups organize themselves politically in their own political parties,