Current Social and Economic Issues

GA 332b — Stuttgart

On Founding the Company “The Coming Day”

Fragment of an essay, 1920

The obvious objection is that a relatively small company like “Der Kommende Tag” is not only unable to do anything positive in the face of a general economic collapse, but must also collapse itself. But this objection is not valid. The economic system which is being aimed at here should show, on the one hand, how enterprises can maintain themselves through their inner life if they break with the practices of the present economic way of thinking, which has led to destruction.

In the exemplary way of cooperation between all employees striven for by the “Kommenden Tag”, it will be possible to guide the companies through severe crises. If the workers are kept in such a way that they feel bound to the entire company in terms of their interests, they will have justified goals to achieve not through disruption but precisely through the maintenance of operations.

On the other hand, this type of economy should enable the managed companies to produce goods that, in terms of quality and quantity, secure us the foreign market.

In our case, all of this guarantees that the investors will see their assets preserved even beyond the catastrophic period until the reconstruction, in which companies like ours must play a significant role.