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

228.) all also concern the life and system of the political parties, but the restriction of the party system or the elimination of political parties cannot complete the post-war democracy on the paths taken by the authoritarian regimes, i.e. by the totalism of a party, or by the way of Soviet socialism, ie. by the automatic closure of all parties except the communist party as a result of the construction of the so-called classless society. I explained sohon why I baled the political party for a necessary part of the democratic state institution without which the integration did not work at all. It is absurd to deny the political party system at all and to speak against the existence of the parties, as is now the case with political and political thinking or not at all the 7- and uneducated people as often as fashion is, but I believe that the political Party, which is such an essential organ of the new democracy in the future will be even more so, an institution that should adopt the principles of "planning" and regulation of the economy and, in general, of public life to a far greater extent than pre-war democracy, be a direct part of the constitutional state regulation. In continental democracy, it should not be left to the complete freedom of the citizens and their free decision to political parties without prior fundamental constitutional provisions and without prior agreement.