English Translation

244.) of the Parliament and of parliamentarism in general, the corruption of all kinds, which, for example, shot up in liberal democratic France in an almost fantastic way, the coalition system, which is one of the main causes of the fall of German democracy, the important "burglarization" of the socialist parties and their apparent decay in a This was, and still is, the fateful phenomenon of a whole series of European states, which can be briefly identified with what has been said above: the political parties in bourgeois democracy, after the previous war, abandoned their original mission and changed their functions and crossed the line of their original democratic system. Instead of remaining the main means and tool for expressing and formulating the partial interests and views of the single ethnic groups, they lived in the role of infallible and intransigent organisms and wanted to represent the whole state and the whole people and thus became the goal of their own. Instead of only controlling government and state administration, they took on themselves the government and government administration and carried into them all the self-interest and inclinations that no political party-being can avoid and which are his own where in the dictatorial states there was still the political totality of a party which necessarily all the bad qualities of the party-making into the environment.