{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 199/1920-08-21/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In this way, we have to look into the differentiations of humanity all over the whole earth, and can gain an understanding of the matter from one side or the other. If the goal is approached directly, namely, if the social life is studied, one arrives at the threefold order as developed in my book, *Towards Social Renewal*. By thus studying the life of mankind throughout the earth, we come to the realization that there is one part with a special disposition for the economy; there is another with a special aptitude for organizing the state; and yet another with a specific inclination towards the spiritual life. A threefold structure can then be created by taking the actual economy from the West, the state from the Middle, and from the East—naturally in a renewed form, as I have often said—the spiritual life. Here you have the state, here the economic life and here the spiritual life (see above sketch); the two others have to be taken across from here. In this way, all humanity has to work together, for the origins of these three members of the social organism are found in different regions of the earth, and therefore must be kept properly apart everywhere. If, in the old manner, human beings wish to mix up in a unified state what is striving to be threefold, nothing will result from it except that in the West the state will be a unity where the economic life overwhelms the whole, and everything else is only submerged into it. If the theorists then take hold of and study the matter, meaning, if Karl Marx moves from Germany to London, he then concludes that everything depends on the economic life. If Marx's insanity triumphs, the three spheres are reduced to one, the one being of a purely economic character. If one limits oneself to what wishes to be merely the state or rights configuration, one apes the economic life of the West, which for decades has been fashioning an illusory structure, which then naturally collapses when a catastrophe occurs—something that has indeed happened!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VII","site_heading":"Eastern Spirituality, Western Economics, and Central European Rights","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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Studiert man so das Leben der Menschen über die Erde hin, dann kommt man dazu, sich zu sagen: Es ist etwas da mit besonderer Veranlagung für die Wirtschaft, es ist etwas da mit besonderer Veranlagung für den Staat, es ist etwas da mit besonderer Veranlagung für das geistige Leben. — Hier kann ein dreigliedriges Gebilde geschaffen werden, indem man die eigentliche Wirtschaft nimmt vom Westen, den Staat nimmt von der Mitte, das geistige Leben - selbstverständlich erneuert, das habe ich immer gesagt — vom Osten. Hier hat man den Staat, hier das wirtschaftliche Leben, hier das geistige Leben (siehe Zeichnung); man hat die beiden andern von hier herüberzunehmen. So hat die Menschheit zusammenzuwirken, weil an verschiedenen Orten der Erde die Ursprünge für diese drei Glieder des sozialen Organismus gefunden werden, die deshalb auch überall gehörig auseinandergehalten werden müssen. Und wenn die Menschen vermischen wollen in der alten Weise zum Einheitsstaat dasjenige, was dreigliedrig sein will, so wird doch nichts anderes daraus, als daß eine Einheit im Westen wird, wo das Wirtschaftsleben alles überflutet und alles andere nur in das Wirtschaftsleben eintaucht. Machen dann sich Theoretiker darüber her und studieren das, das heißt, geht Karl Marx von Deutschland nach London, dann studiert er: Alles muß wirtschaftliches Leben sein. - Und wird der Wahnsinn Marxens vollends, dann macht man die drei Glieder nur eingliedrig, aber nur mit dem Charakter der Wirtschaft. Beschränkt man sich auf das, was bloß Staats- oder Rechtsgebilde sein will, so äft! man das Wirtschaftsleben des Westens nach, macht ein Scheingebilde des Wirtschaftslebens durch Jahrzehnte, was dann selbstverständlich zusammenbricht, wenn die Katastrophe kommt, was ja auch geschehen ist!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":324,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/199/1920-08-21/p029"}],"english":["GA 199/1920-08-21/p030"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":324,"en_words":350,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6615,"original_word_count":6259,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Maria St. Goar","identified_edition":"AP1986","book_title":"Spiritual Science as a Foundation for Social Forms","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA199/English/AP1986/19200821p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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