{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 181/1918-05-21/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I said that just at the present time man, in regard to these things, is placed in a sharp conflict. The present day does not recognize that such a thing as the streaming down of a spiritual stream of evolution into the events of the Earth can take place; it does not recognize that man is only an *instrument*, and it wishes to build up a social order which does not recognize this. It wishes to build up a social order which really only reckons with the quite personal man standing here on the Earth, and to fix attention on him. The most extreme caricature of the plan of only viewing man from the most individual point of view, is Leninism or Trotskyism, to which I have already alluded. This conception of society only recognizes the man who stands here on the Earth. I do not only mean by this the theoretical side alone—that would be the least harmful—I am referring to the consequences in life of this view. Men like Lenin or Trotsky seek—even in a sphere where it is least suitable—so to establish the framework of society as if nothing else came into consideration that the individual man of flesh and blood. That however is an ideal which has been forming for decades in the sphere of so-called socialism, and Leninism and Trotskyism are indeed only the latest grotesque flutterings of such a conception, which has been forming for a long time.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VII. Whitsuntide Lecture","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-05-21","location":null,"word_count":244,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/181/1918-05-21/p009","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"LRC0049","book_title":"Anthroposophical Life Gifts","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA181/English/LRC0049/19180521p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Die äußerste Karikatur, die nur den allerindividuellsten Menschen ins Auge faßt, ist der neulich schon erwähnte Leninismus oder Trotzkismus. Diese Gesellschaftsanschauung kennt nur den Menschen, der hier auf der Erde steht. Ich meine damit nicht allein das Theoretische - das wäre das wenigste —, sondern ich meine die Lebenskonsequenzen. Solch ein Lenin oder Troizki suchen — sogar auf einem Gebiete, wo es am wenigsten hinpaßt — die Gesellschaftsstruktur so einzurichten, als ob eben nichts anderes in Betracht käme, als der einzelne fleischliche Mensch. Das aber ist ein Ideal, das sich auf dem Gebiete des sogenannten Sozialismus seit Jahrzehnten herangebildet hat, und Leninismus und Trotzkismus sind ja nur die letzten fratzenhaften Wehen einer solchen Anschauung, die sich eben seit langem herangebildet hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":208,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/181/1918-05-21/p009"}],"english":["GA 181/1918-05-21/p009"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":208,"en_words":244,"ratio":1.17,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7132,"original_word_count":7047,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"LRC0049","book_title":"Anthroposophical Life Gifts","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA181/English/LRC0049/19180521p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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