{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 186/1918-12-14/p042","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now with respect to the questions I have just raised, the point is this: It must be the very aim of our investigations to find out—How shall we shape the social structure, the social life of man together, so as to loosen and free the objective commodity, the goods, the product, from the labor-power? This must be the point, my dear friends, in all our economic endeavors. The product should be brought onto the market and circulated in such a way that the labor-power is loosed and freed from it. This is the problem in economics that we must solve. If we start with the axiom that the labor-power is crystallized into the commodity and inseparable from it, we begin by eclipsing the essential problem and then we put things upside-down. We fail to notice the most important question—the question on which, in the realm of political economy, the fortunes and misfortunes of the civilized world will depend. How shall the objective commodity, the goods, the product, be loosed and severed from the labor-power, so that the latter may no longer be a commodity? For this can be done if we believe in that three-folding of the social order which I have explained to you, if we make our institutions accordingly. This is the way to separate from the labor-power of man the objective commodities, the goods, which are, after all, loosed and separated from the human being.","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":238,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/186/1918-12-14/p042","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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Wenn man aber ausgeht davon wie von einem Axiom, daß in die Ware hineinkristallisiert ist die Arbeitskraft, daß das nicht trennbar ist, dann verdeckt man sich ja gerade das Hauptproblem, da stellt man ja das, was auf den Füßen stehen soll, auf den Kopf. Man merkt gar nicht, daß die wichtigste Frage, von der das Glück oder Unglück der zivilisierten Welt auf volkswirtschaftlichem Gebiet abhängt und auf die jeder Impuls des Denkers gerichtet sein muß, diese ist: Wie löst sich die objektive Ware, das Gut, ab von der Arbeitskraft, so daß Arbeitskraft nicht mehr Ware sein kann? Das kann man erreichen. Wenn man die Einrichtungen trifft im Sinne jener Dreigliederung, die ich Ihnen vorgetragen habe, so ist dies der Weg, um dasjenige, was objektiv vom Menschen losgelöste Ware, losgelöstes Gut ist, von der Arbeitskraft loszulösen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":225,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/186/1918-12-14/p030"}],"english":["GA 186/1918-12-14/p042"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":225,"en_words":238,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.09,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9153,"original_word_count":8380,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"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. 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