Current Social and Economic Issues

GA 332b — Stuttgart

Call for the Establishment of a Cultural Council! To All People!

Flyer, late May 1919

For centuries, our cultural life (schools, science, art and religion) served the state and the economy. Legal paragraphs and regulations turned us into uninspired, dependent beings. Tied into the one-sided economic life, there was high and low. A politically untrained people - that's how the world war catastrophe hit us. The result was collapse. The lack of social insight on the part of the ruling class overlooked the needs of the proletariat, which had no property of its own and only received the crumbs of cultural achievements, while otherwise wasting itself in the struggle for existence. The proletariat hoped that the revolution would liberate it from the soul-destroying effects of capitalism. Within the economic sphere, it sought its salvation only in economic betterment.

In reality, however, the urge for human dignity is striving to break through.

The great goal can only be achieved in the cultural sphere through schooling and education of the mind. There is a looming and frightening danger that cultural life will be enslaved again, with intellectual products being stamped as commodities.

This must not be allowed to happen if human culture is not to perish.

The entire spiritual life must become independent and self-governing. Only in this way can it beneficially stimulate economic and political life. Only in this way will it be possible to truly educate the truly capable.

Just as economic life is administered by the works council, so intellectual life must be administered by a cultural council. This council must bring together all those who are seriously willing, each in his own position, to renew intellectual life and to work towards it, free from the influences of the state and the interests of the economy, so that it can follow its own laws.

A spiritual worker is anyone who strives for true humanity.

Their workplace is in the cultural council. Whether they were active in the old order in the political, economic or cultural field, whether they were proletarians or non-proletarians, everyone should join immediately before it is too late! The time is serious!

The League for

Threefolding the Social Organism

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