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You can turn things around a bit – and out of it comes the life philosophy of Mr. Trotsky! In order to be a Trotskyist with a Weltanschauung today, one does not need to be able to think for oneself at all, but only to let language think within oneself in the way I have just described. But because language has emancipated itself from them in a certain way, it is not people who are at work here, but Ahrimanic powers in human culture.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Fifth Lecture","site_heading":"Initiatory Science and Moral Renewal in Modern Society","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Jahrhunderts, der sich über diese oder jene sozialen Dinge geäußert hat, da können Sie nun gewisse Eigenschaftsworte wegnehmen und durch andere ersetzen, die wieder in einem andern Satz stehen. Sie können die Dinge ein bißchen umwerfen — und es entsteht daraus die Lebensanschauung des Herrn Trotzkij! Man braucht, um heute mit einer Lebensanschauung ein Trotzkij zu sein, gar nicht selber denken zu können, sondern nur die Sprache in sich denken zu lassen in der Weise, wie ich es eben geschildert habe. 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