English Translation

68.) Wiisonsaw democracy and the universal Vöikerbund until the present reaction against it - we kept moving between the struggle for humanist universalism, for freedom and the free development of the human personality on the one hand and the selfish, exclusive national doctrine dominated by the state, or a similar political forcible system, based on violence, pressure and lack of freedom on the outside and inside, on the other. After the victory of one of these systems and regimes, attempts must and inevitably be made to establish an alternative system and order. These two social, political and ideological orders always fought each other in the individual national communities in the historical epochs; and very rarely could one of them completely suppress the opposing system and conquer absolute sovereignty in the community or communities, in extraordinary times, in times of great crisis, wars and disasters, in revolutionary times as it is ours, however, this struggle gains so much in intensity, fanaticism and suffering so that the forces of reaction, power and violence in the most reckless will apply all possible methods. the movement for freedom to be finally uprooted. In certain states these forces had in the last ten years great success in Germany, Italy, Japan and a number of smaller europaisoher Staa