English Translation

241.) regularly help in its activity and ease its tasks, and the second, which is particularly impressively carrying out its task of control, by being a guarantee of political freedom in opposition and its oppositional function,The existence of only one single party enables political totalism, the dictate of a party and the loss of bourgeois freedom, and is therefore a priori excluded from the democratic regime. The existence of many parties causes all the difficulties I mentioned in the previous chapter. These functions of political parties in democracy - the expression and formulation of the partial interests and views of the individual groups of the people and the control of public power and state administration and the mutual control of their own - are the only legitimate functions of the no litical parties All continental European democracies have sinned against this principle. They have allowed the political parties to become less and less the means and tools for formulating the sub-interests and views of the groups, but rather that they became the goal of themselves and, at times, a state in the state. Whenever one or the other party, which spent its part interests on the interests of the whole state and people, could not take over the government and administration of the entire state, it, as I have already mentioned above, sought to share the government with the administration in such a way that it was the absolute master in