{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 186/1918-12-14/p028","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The Marxian Socialists (and as I have often told you, this includes almost the whole of the proletariat today), the Marxian Socialists declare, under the influence of Marx: Economic life, economic oppositions, and the class oppositions that arise from them—these things are the true reality. Everything else is an ideological superstructure. What man thinks, what he creates in poetry and art, what he thinks about the State or about life in general, all this is a mere result of his economic mode of life. And for this reason the proletariat of today declares:—We need no National Assemblies to bring about a new social order. For in the National Assemblies there will be the bourgeois folk once more and they will have their say out of their economically-determined bourgeois minds. We have no use for that. We can only do with those who will voice the thoughts of Proletarian minds. It is they who must re-mold the world today. To this end we do not first need to summon National Assemblies. Let the few Proletarians who happen to be on top exercise a dictatorship. They have proletarian ideas, they will think the right thoughts. Not only Lenin and Trotsky in Russia, Karl Liebknecht in Berlin repudiates the National Assembly. He says: After all, it will be no more than a reassembly of the talk-shop—meaning the Reichstag, the Houses of Parliament.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. The Logic of Thought and the Logic of Reality","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-12-14","location":null,"word_count":229,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/186/1918-12-14/p028","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"C52","book_title":"The Fundamental Social Demand of Our Times","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA186/English/C52/19181214p01.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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Aus diesem Grunde sagt ja auch der Proletarier der Gegenwart: Wir brauchen nicht eine allgemeine Nationalversammlung, wenn wir eine Neuordnung herbeiführen wollen, denn da werden wiederum die Bürger drinnen sein und aus ihrem wirtschaftlich determinierten Bürgertum heraus mitreden. Das können wir nicht brauchen. Wir können nur diejenigen brauchen, welche so reden, wie es aus den proletarischen Köpfen kommt, denn das sind heute diejenigen, die die Welt gestalten müssen. Da brauchen wir überhaupt nicht erst Versammlungen einzuberufen, sondern die paar Proletarier, die eben gerade obenauf sind, die üben die Diktatur aus, denn sie haben proletarische Anschauungen, sie werden also das Richtige denken. - Wie Lenin und Trotzki in Rußland, so weist Kar] Liebknecht in Berlin die Nationalversammlung zurück. 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