In Schweyk, Brecht sees the "truly unpositive standpoint of the people, who are in fact the only positive themselves and therefore cannot stand positively for anything else." Schweyk is "merely the opportunist of the tiny opportunities that remain to him. He sincerely affirms the existing order, as far as he affirms any principle of order, even the national one, which he only encounters as oppression. His wisdom is overwhelming. His indestructibility makes him an inexhaustible object of abuse and at the same time a breeding ground for liberation.".