{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 24/l04/p006","lang":"en","edition":"AP1985","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In my book, *Toward Social Renewal*, I have taken pains to show that the world view adopted by the leaders among party socialists is in all essentials simply a continuance (carried to a certain extreme) of the bourgeois world view of the last three or four centuries. The socialists cherish the illusion that their ideas represent a complete break with this world view. They do not represent a break, but rather only a peculiar coloring of the bourgeois world view with working-class feelings and sentiments. This is shown very markedly by the attitude these socialist leaders adopt toward cultural life and its place in the social organism. Owing to the predominance of economics in bourgeois society during the last few centuries, the spiritual and cultural life has fallen into great dependence on economic life. The consciousness of a self-sustaining spiritual-cultural life, in which the human soul partakes, has been lost. Industrialism and our view of nature have collaborated to bring about this loss. Linked to this loss is the particular way the schools were incorporated into the social organism in recent times. To make the human being serviceable for external life in state and industry—that became the main thing. That man is above all a being with a soul who therefore should be filled with the consciousness of his connection with a spiritual order of things, and that it is through *his consciousness* that he imparts sense to the state and economic system in which he lives—all this was considered less and less. Minds were directed ever less toward the spiritual order of the world, and ever more toward the conditions of economic production. In the middle class this became a manner of feeling, an instinctive psychological tendency. Working class leaders made it into a philosophy of life—or rather, into a dogma.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"4. The Threefold Social Order and Educational Freedom","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":302,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/24/l04/p006","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:structural_identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["AP1985","SOL2024"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/24/l04/p006"},{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1985","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/24/l04/p006","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l04","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 24/l04/p006","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/24/l04/p006"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":271,"en_words":302,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 24/l04/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"In meinem Buche «Die Kernpunkte der sozialen Frage in den Lebensnotwendigkeiten der Gegenwart und Zukunft» habe ich mich bemüht, zu zeigen, daß in der Lebensauffassung der parteimäßig führenden Sozialisten im wesentlichen nur die nach einem gewissen Extrem getriebene Gedankenwelt des Bürgertums der letzten drei bis vier Jahrhunderte weiterlebt. Es ist die Illusion dieser Sozialisten, daß ihre Ideen einen völligen Bruch mit dieser Gedankenwelt darstellen. Nicht ein solcher liegt vor, sondern nur die besondere Färbung der bürgerlichen Lebensauffassung aus dem Fühlen und Empfinden des Proletariats heraus. Dies zeigt sich ganz besonders stark in der Stellung, welche diese sozialistischen Führer zum Geistesleben und seiner Eingliederung in den gesellschaftlichen Organismus einnehmen. Durch die hervorragende Bedeutung des Wirtschaftslebens in der bürgerlichen Gesellschaftsorganisation der letzten Jahrhunderte ist das Geistesleben in eine starke Abhängigkeit von dem Wirtschaftsleben gekommen. Das Bewußtsein von einem in sich selbst gegründeten Geistesleben, an dem die Menschenseele Anteil hat, ist verloren gegangen. Naturanschauung und Industrialismus haben diesen Verlust mitbewirkt. Damit hängt zusammen, wie man in der neueren Zeit die Schule in den gesellschaftlichen Organismus eingliederte. Den Menschen für das äußere Leben in Staat und Wirtschaft brauchbar zu machen, wurde die Hauptsache. Daß er in erster Linie als seelisches Wesen erfüllt sein solle mit dem Bewußtsein seines Zusammenhanges mit einer Geistesordnung der Dinge und daß er durch dieses *sein Bewußtsein* dem Staate und der Wirtschaft, in denen er lebt, einen Sinn gibt, daran wurde immer weniger gedacht. Die Köpfe richteten sich immer weniger nach der geistigen Weltordnung und immer mehr nach den wirtschaftlichen Produktionsverhältnissen. Beim Bürgertum wurde dieses zu einer empfindungsgemäßen Richtung des Seelenlebens. Die proletarischen Führer machten daraus eine theoretische Lebensauffassung, ein Lebensdogma.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":271,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/24/l04/p006"}],"english":["GA 24/l04/p006"],"method":"structural_identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"unverified","length_check":{"de_words":271,"en_words":302,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.18,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2321,"original_word_count":1963,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. 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