But a ban might not have halted the German people’s general disenchantment with liberal democracy, and an authoritarian regime still might have followed. Indeed, whereas West Germany banned a neo-Nazi party and the Communist Party in the 1950’s, some countries –particularly in Southern and Eastern Europe, where dictatorship came to be associated with the suppression of pluralism – have drawn precisely the opposite lesson about preventing authoritarianism.
但禁止可能无法阻止德国人民对自由民主制度的总体性的失望，集权政权崛起的土壤仍在。事实上，20世纪50年代西德禁止了新纳粹党和共产党时，而与此同时，一些国家——特别是在南欧和东欧，那里的独裁制度与镇压多元主义互相勾结——在防止集权主义方面却恰恰反其道而行之。这就是（比如）希腊没有禁止政党的法条的原因。