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

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.226.) which express their fundamental interests and class conflicts, one with a view to the other. In social society, however, where fundamental and structural class conflicts are eliminated by the socialization of the means of production and the formation of the so-called classless society, there is no sub-national formation of more than one party. This party then gives special functions to the Soviet socialist system, something different from the parties which have them in democracy, and the function of control and a certain kind of opposition - as far as it is allowed - tries to press it out with the help of other institutions and to lead it through the dure I do not want to analyse in detail this state here, which logically emerges from the tehoretic foundations of the whole Soviet system. I only note that, in the time of the temporary dictatorship, this system also excludes the possibility of the existence of a political party other than the communist party at all, precisely because it is a dictatorship, albeit temporary, that does not allow opposition. In the meantime, however, it remains somewhat uncertain whether this system will become a "real" democracy in the Augenbliok, in which, after the end of the temporary dictation period, it will turn into a "actual" democracy as it sees itself, and therefore become the regime of a new political and intellectual freedom - without the formation of new parties. For in the regime of freedom are not and need a state-creating principle not only and only the