NĚMECKÉ STÁTNÍ MINISTERSTVO PRO ČECHY A MORAVU, PRAHA (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1270, sig. 110-12/96 Page 230 · 230 of 272
THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1270, sig. 110-12/96
English Translation
It can also be ideological contradictions that concern not only economic but also intellectual, cultural questions, questions of the outside organization of society, etc. I know here that we/again touch the dispute about economic materialism, and therefore do not want to make the matter clear here. I only mention the problem in order to indicate that in the further development of the Soviet Socialism system "to the right" the approach to the democratic system has not been exhausted even in this important section. I also do not believe that a government and party can really be freed by a measure and can control an organ which itself did not have sufficient degree of freedom, at least one such as the controlled party itself has. I am the freedom of scientific, religious, political conviction, I am in favour of freedom of the word and of the press, the association and assembly par- ticipation; I am also in the public control of the political life of the state and also consider the existence of no more than a political party as the necessary consequence of it. However, I believe that the future democracy, even as it restricts or will regulate ownership and economic freedom, will have to regulate some types and manifestations of the former free democratic political life more, the development to socialize modern society and the planned economy of all kinds brings this with it. I believe that this must be done before