English Translation

239) Interests, needs, winches and ideas are and these classes and parties - the organs of the organized democracy - express themselves and, in a democratic way, partly through the interests and views of the people, partly determine and elect, indirectly or directly, the legislative and judicial enforcers of the law, the wishes and interests of the population into the state administration and the administrative power. These bodies have to administer the state as a whole in the interests of the people, in the interest of the state in its entirety, in a nation's interest, and in society in its whole. I repeat: for the sake of the State as a Whole, not only in one interest or only in the party's interests (even if they have emerged indirectly or directly from it). The party here is the means of organizing the state, the instrument indispensable to the proper organization of every free democratic society, its establishment and agitation. It is not and should not be a goal for itself. To be a tool for organizing the democratic society is, after that, the first task of the political party. Your second task is no less important. The human egoism, the innate longing for power and domination, the human ambition drive the public workers to easily abuse them when they reach power, and to have the tendency at all to keep power for the most long, and, as far as it is possible, to convert them into a permanent or hereditary and personal, oligarchic or party dictatorship,