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You will find all the methods of our present-day science used in the books; everything is strictly proved, so strictly proved that many people, of whom one would never have supposed it, have fallen victim to Marxism. What was the actual destiny of Marxism? It spread at first, as you know, among the proletariat and was firmly rejected by university science. Today there are already a number of university scientists who have veered round to acknowledging Marxist logic. They adhere to it because its literature has proved that its conclusions are in excellent accord, that from the standpoint of modern science Marxism can be quite neatly proved. Middle-class circles have unfortunately had no Karl Marx who could have proved the opposite for them; for just as one can prove the ideological character of right, morality, and so forth, the theory of surplus value and materialistic historical research from the Marxist standpoint, so is it possible to prove their exact opposite. 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A man who does not look deeper but simply lets himself be accepted into a certain party-circle—by reason of his education, heredity, circumstances of life and State—quite honestly believes—or so he thinks—in the possibility of proving the tenets of the party into which he has slipped, as he says. And then—then he fights against someone else who has slipped into another party! And the one is just as right as the other. This calls forth chaos and confusion over mankind that will gradually become greater and greater unless men see through it. Ahriman makes use of this confusion in order to prepare the triumph of his incarnation and to drive men with increasing force into what they find so difficult to realize—namely, that by intellectual or modern scientific reasoning today, one can prove anything and equally well prove its opposite. The point is for us to recognize that everything can be proved and for that reason to examine the proofs put forward in science today. It is only in natural science that reality is shown by the facts; in no other field can one consider intellectual proofs valid. The only way to escape the danger that threatens if one accepts the lures of Ahriman and his desire to drive men deeper and deeper into these things, is to realize through anthroposophical spiritual science that human knowledge must be sought for in a stratum deeper than that in which the validity of our proofs arises. And so, in order to create dissensions, Ahriman also makes use of what develops from the old conditions of heredity which man has really outgrown in the Fifth Post-Atlantean Epoch. The Ahrimanic powers use all that is derived from old circumstances of heredity in order to set men against each other in conflicting groups. All that comes from old differences of family, race, tribe, peoples, is used by Ahriman to create confusion. “Freedom for every nation, even the smallest ...” These were fine-sounding words. But the powers hostile to man always use fine words in order to bring confusion and in order to attain the things that Ahriman wishes to attain for his incarnation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":455,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/193/1919-10-27/p029","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1919-10-27","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 193/1919-10-27/p022","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/193/1919-10-27/p022"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":504,"en_words":455,"ratio":0.9,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Lernen Sie genau erkennen, wie die Lehre von Karl Marx sich im modernen Proletariat ausgebreitet hat, und sehen Sie sich die schier ins Endlose gehende, ins Unermeßliche gehende Literatur des Marxismus an. Die heute sonst übliche Art von wissenschaftlicher Betrachtung finden Sie darin in ausgesprochenstem Maße angewendet, alles streng bewiesen, so streng bewiesen, daß auch schon manche Leute, von denen man es gar nicht angenommen hätte, auf den Marxismus hereingefallen sind. Wie war denn eigentlich das Schicksal des Marxismus? Zunächst, nicht wahr, breitete sich der Marxismus im Proletariat aus. Von der Universitätswissenschaft wurde er streng abgewiesen. Heute sind schon eine Anzahl von Universitätswissenschaftern da, die sich der Logik des Marxismus nicht mehr entziehen, die ihn anerkennen, die gar nicht mehr aus ihm herauskommen können, weil es sich in der Literatur allmählich herausgestellt hat, daß die Schlußfolgerungen sehr fein stimmen, daß man mit der gegenwärtigen wissenschaftlichen Gesinnung und Vorstellungsart diesen Marxismus ganz fein säuberlich beweisen kann. Die bürgerlichen Kreise haben nur keinen Karl Marx gehabt, der ihnen das Gegenteil bewiesen hätte; denn genau ebenso wie man beweisen kann den ideologischen Charakter von Recht, Sitte und so weiter, die Theorie vom Mehrwert und die materialistische Geschichtsforschung vom marxistischen Standpunkt aus, so kann man von allen diesen Dingen ganz genau ebenso exakt das Gegenteil beweisen. Es wäre durchaus möglich, daß ein bürgerlicher, ein Bourgeois-Marx genau das Gegenteil in derselben strengen Weise bewiesen hätte. Und da ist nicht einmal irgendein Humbug oder Schwindel dabei. Die Beweise würden restlos klappen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":285,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/193/1919-10-27/p021"},{"locus":"GA 193/1919-10-27/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Woher kommt denn das? Das kommt davon her, daß das gegenwärtige menschliche Denken, der gegenwärtige Intellekt in einer solchen Schicht des Seins liegt, daß er bis zu den Realitäten nicht herunterreicht. Und daher kann man das eine beweisen und sein Gegenteil beweisen, ganz streng das eine und sein Gegenteil beweisen. Es ist heute möglich, auf der einen Seite streng den Spiritualismus zu beweisen und ebenso streng den Materialismus zu beweisen. Und man kann gegeneinander kämpfen mit denselben guten Standpunkten, weil der heutige Intellektualismus in einer oberen Schicht der Wirklichkeit ist und nicht in die Tiefen des Seins hinuntergeht. Und so ist es auch mit den Parteimeinungen. Wer das nicht durchschaut, sondern sich einfach aufnehmen läßt durch seine Erziehung, Vererbung, durch seine Staats- und anderen Lebensverhältnisse in einen gewissen Parteikreis, der glaubt, wie er meint, ehrlich an die Beweiskraft desjenigen, was in dieser Partei ist, in die er hineingerutscht ist, hineingeschlittert ist, wie man in der deutschen Sprache zuweilen auch sagt. Und dann, dann kämpft er gegen einen anderen, der in eine andere Partei hineingeschlittert ist. Und der eine hat ebensogut recht wie der andere. Das ruft über die Menschheit hin ein Chaos und eine Verwirrung hervor, die nach und nach immer größer und größer werden können, wenn die Menschheit das nicht durchschaut. Und diese Verwirrung ist wiederum eine solche, die die ahrimanische Macht benützt, um den Triumph ihrer Inkarnation vorzubereiten, immer stärker und stärker die Menschen hineinzutreiben in das, was sie so schwer einsehen können, daß man heute etwas beweisen kann und ebenso das Gegenteil mit gleich guten intellektuellen oder heute wissenschaftlichen Gründen. Darauf kommt es heute an, daß wir anerkennen: beweisbar ist alles, und daß wir deshalb auf solche Beweise, wie sie heute in der Wissenschaft geschmiedet werden, hinsehen. Nur innerhalb der Naturwissenschaft, des strengen Naturwissens selbst, da zeigt sich an den Tatsachen die Wirklichkeit. Aber auf keinem anderen Felde darf man gelten lassen dasjenige, was sich intellektuell beweisen läßt. Nur dann, wenn wir dahinterkommen, daß das menschliche Wissen, die menschliche Erkenntnis tiefer gesucht werden müssen — wie es durch anthroposophisch orientierte Geisteswissenschaft geschieht - als in jener Schicht, in welcher die Kraft unserer Beweise entspringt, entrinnt man der Gefahr, in die man hineinkommt, wenn man die ahrimanische Verführung gelten läßt, die nun den Menschen gerade immer tiefer und tiefer in diese Dinge hineintreiben will. Daher benützt Ahriman in unserer Zeit, um die Menschen durcheinanderzubringen, auch alles dasjenige, was aus den alten Vererbungsverhältnissen stammt, denen der Mensch im Grunde genommen schon entwachsen ist im fünften nachatlantischen Zeitraum. Alles, was von alten Vererbungsverhältnissen stammt, das benützt die ahrimanische Macht, um die Menschen in Gruppen disharmonisch einander entgegenzustellen. Alles, was von alten Familien-, Rassen-, Stammes-, Volksunterschieden kommt, das benützt die ahrimanische Macht, um unter den Menschen Verwirrung zu stiften. Freiheit jedem einzelnen Volksstamm, auch dem kleinsten - es war ein schönes Wort. Aber die Worte sind immer schön, welche die den Menschen gegnerischen Mächte gebrauchen, um unter den Menschen Verwirrung zu stiften, um solche Dinge zu erreichen, wie sie Ahriman für seine Inkarnation erreichen will.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":504,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/193/1919-10-27/p022"}],"beads":[{"from":[27,28],"to":[21],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[29],"to":[22],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}