Since the human being – as explained here – is a relationship, it is a constant struggle in all kinds of ideologies, in spiritual science considerations and investigations, to find out what kind of relationships these are and how they are to be described and shaped.
This also became a decisive issue in communism, Marxism and fascism.
The relationship of man to the state is dissolved in the class struggle of communism in such a way that man recedes before the collective in his life claims and hands over everything to the collective, which the state represents as the highest administrative authority.
Only from there should he regain the definition of his vital interests, so to speak, and thus fit into a state community.
in the definition assigned by the state, his life
The following can be said succinctly:
The state is everything. Man is nothing.
But if the state is everything, what is the human being? And what is the state based on? In what he consists?
In its ideology, the state empowers itself to push back man as an individual and then to take away his freedom of self-determination.
The state thus consists of the few who have power and secure it with anxiety.
However, no human being can build a happy life under duress and in anxiety.
Democracy protects against such power, and therefore one of the basic conditions of democracy is freedom from anxiety, as described here.
Democracy is precisely designed to limit a too high claim to power and to keep power permanently under democratic control. This also applies to economic power and even more so to criminal power.
Therefore, democracy protects precisely the individual from encroachments of power in law and all other institutions. A complex relationship system that is never finished and that is also repeatedly attacked by those in power.
It should have become clear that Trump himself, as well as the “allies of the war on democracy”, are attacking and undermining this protective system.
Therefore, the orientation towards love as the highest form of the rationality of life is a constant claim.
Therefore, neither man nor his institutions are fixed or definitively fixed.
Democracy is therefore the institutionalization of the imperfect.
In democracy, nor everything is good, nor everything is perfect and love is not omnipresent either.
Rather, democracy is a path towards a goal, with mistakes and a constant discussion about it.
Everything is always under discussion; every relationship must always be won anew.
Nevertheless, in a democracy, the human being is oriented towards love from his deep relationship structure, since only this achieves as an objective the balance between the state’s claim to power and the individual’s claim to freedom and independence, and therefore does not crush man with undue anxieties.
