Contemporary democracy is a consequence of the states of the modern age. Outside the state — for the time being — there is no historical experience of democracy. For this reason, in our view, the preservation of the state, above local and international interests, is fundamental for the preservation of democracy. The state is the body of democracy. The disintegration of the state, whether by international forces erasing its borders and replacing its functioning supra-nationally under a new political or commercial organization, or by internal dismemberment or atomization dissolving its political structures, amounts to the transformation of democracy into something else, which only through its deeds and its fruits, that is to say — less evangelically — through its consequences, we will know.
