{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 186/1918-12-14/p043","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It must be admitted, my dear friends, that we find little understanding as yet for these things, derived as they are from the realities. In 1905 I published my essay on “Theosophy and the Social Question,” in the periodical *Lucifer-Gnosis*. I then drew attention to the first and foremost principle which must be maintained in order to sever the product from the labor. Here alone, I said, could we find salvation in the social question, and I emphasized that this question depends on our thinking rightly about production and consumption. Today men are thinking altogether on the lines of Production. We must change the direction of our thought. The whole question must be diverted from Production to Consumption. In detail, one had occasion to give many a piece of advice: but through the inadequate conditions and other insufficiencies, such advice could not really take effect, as one experienced—unhappily—in many cases. And it is so indeed; the men of today, through their faith in certain logical conclusions, which they mistake for real conclusions, have no sense for the need of looking at the Realities. But in the social domain above all it is only the Reality which can teach us the right way to put our questions. Of course people will say to you: Do you not see that it is necessary for labor to be done if commodities are to be produced? That is so indeed. Logically, commodities are the result of labor. But Reality is a very different thing from Logic.","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":252,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/186/1918-12-14/p043","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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Man konnte im einzelnen manchen Ratschlag geben, der aber wiederum durch die Unzulänglichkeit der Verhältnisse und durch sonstiges Unzulängliche nicht die rechten realen Folgen haben konnte. Das hat man ja auch manchmal erfahren. Aber es ist tatsächlich so, daß die Menschen heute durch den Glauben an gewisse logische Konsequenzen, die sie als wirkliche Konsequenzen nehmen, keinen Sinn dafür haben, daß auf die Wirklichkeit hingeschaut werden muß. Die Wirklichkeit ergibt aber auch gerade auf sozialem Gebiete erst die richtigen Fragestellungen. Sie werden es natürlich heute leicht erleben, daß Ihnen die Leute sagen: Ja, aber siehst du denn nicht, daß gearbeitet werden muß, wenn Ware da sein soll? — Gewiß muß gearbeitet werden, wenn Ware da sein soll. Logisch folgt ja auch die Ware aus der Arbeit. 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