English Translation

267.) I repeat only once again that I am a Democrat, because I hold the ideal, political and social system of democracy as a closed life and world view morally and philosophically fir the best. Man, the human creature is in it an absolute value and the measure of life and the world. That is why I call political, social and economic democracy a humanitarian democracy The humanitarian denocracy is a system that makes the improvement of society possible, especially by improving man as a human individual. It is the improvement of society by the improvement and change of social norms of all kinds in the spirit of the @rounds of democracy also absolutely essential and equally important, but it does not attach an absolute value to any institution, no social institution, It is always the person who gives all institutions the direction, character, spirit, running and the goal. Every ideal movement, every system of government, every class and party, every doctrine: feudalism, monarchist authoritarianism, liberalism, socialism, communism, fascism create themselves temporary institutions that consume, develop and change, and all these institutions have only a retiring, torrent, dwindling value, depending on the historical development they pass into new, better institutions required by the new development. As we have seen, democracy is and will become a modern political-social system.