On 22 February, 1972, the West Berlin Senate rejected a unanimous Mondel at Fourth International "Red Europe nelly in Branselt recommendation by the Free University students and staff that Ernest Mandel be given the vacant Chair in Social Mandel at IMG cadre school. granted to all working people, but must also include all the material means necessary for them to exercise these rights. Out of this theory flows an interesting question concerning the free and democratic order' which the senate pretends to defend against the Fourth International. The constitution of the Federal Republic also guarantees these basic rights, albeit formally, but at the same time defends the capitalist system. Now, what happens if the majority of the population, in exercising its basic rights, speaks out for the abolition of the social order? Because that is the situation we are trying to bring about. In this case are basic political rights to be sacrificed on the altar of the golden calf, or the golden calf on the altar of basic political rights? The senate has obviously opted for the golden calf when it accuses us of breaking with the free and democratic order'. This definition of unconstitutionality would apply not only to Karl Marx and Frederich Engels, August Bebel, Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht, but up to 1923, even to Karl Kautsky, Rudolf Hilferding and Rudolf Breitscheid. All these leading representatives of the German labour movement supported the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and the construction of a state like that of the Paris Commune, i.e. a democratic soviet republic, for which the Fourth International fights today."
Mandel warned the SPD leaders that the measures they were using against him could easily one day be used against them: "Do I have to warn the West Berlin Senate that all social-democratic organisations and news-