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That is precisely what I believe, that there is something essential about the ideas presented to you today. You will find the material, the building blocks everywhere. I gave a similar lecture in Bern the other day. A gentleman came to me then, not only in the discussion, but the next day for a conversation, and also spoke about “free land, free money”. After an hour, however, we were able to agree that what is actually wanted in the regulation of the currency question, in the creation of an absolute currency, will simply be achieved if this tripartite division that I have spoken of today is carried out properly - properly indeed - if the administration of values, the administration of money, is simply taken away from the political state and transferred to economic life. As I have said, I will show in my book “Die Kernpunkte der sozialen Frage in den Lebensnotwendigkeiten der Gegenwart und Zukunft” that the basis of the currency will then be quite different from what it is today, and that it will also become international. As long, of course, as the leading state, England, clings to the gold currency, the gold currency will have to apply in foreign policy; but internally, those who now really have the one true currency will no longer need gold in the social organism; for the only real true currency will consist in the means of production, which will then be there to be the currency for money. Money is completely misunderstood today. Money is only understood if it can be grasped as the complete opposite of the old natural economy.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IV. Proletarian Demands and Their Future Practical Realization","site_heading":null,"date":"1919-04-02","location":null,"word_count":416,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/329/1919-04-02/p051","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Liberation of the Human Being as the Basis for a Social Reorganization","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA329/English/SOL2024/19190402p01.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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Die Sache ist nämlich so: Wenn ich glauben würde, daß meine Ideen so einfach aus der Luft irgendwoher geholt seien, dann würde ich Sie nicht langweilen damit, dann würde ich glauben, daß sie längst nicht reif geworden sind. Das gerade ist es, was ich glaube, daß Wesentliches den Ihnen heute vorgetragenen Ideen anhaftet. Die Materie, die Bausteine dazu finden Sie überall. Ich habe den Vortrag ähnlich neulich in Bern drüben gehalten. Ein Herr kam dazumal, nicht nur in der Diskussion, sondern am nächsten Tag zu einer Unterredung zu mir, sprach auch über «Freiland, Freigeld». Wir konnten uns allerdings nach einer Stunde darüber verständigen, daß ja dasjenige, was eigentlich gewollt wird in der Regulierung der Währungsfrage, in der Herstellung einer absoluten Währung, einfach dann erreicht wird, wenn sachgemäß - allerdings sachgemäß - diese Dreiteilung durchgeführt wird, von der ich Ihnen heute gesprochen habe, wenn einfach die Verwaltung der Werte, die Verwaltung des Geldes weggenommen wird vom politischen Staate und in das Wirtschaftsleben hineinversetzt wird. Wie gesagt, ich werde in meinem Buche «Die Kernpunkte der sozialen Frage in den Lebensnotwendigkeiten der Gegenwart und Zukunft» zeigen, daß dann die Grundlage der Währung eine ganz andere sein wird als dasjenige, was sie heute ist, außerdem international wird. So lange natürlich der führende Staat, England, an der Goldwährung festhält, wird außenpolitisch die Goldwährung gelten müssen; aber im Innern werden diejenigen das Gold im sozialen Organismus nicht mehr brauchen, die nun wirklich die eine wahre Währung haben; die einzig wirkliche wahre besteht nämlich in den Produktionsmitteln, die dann da sein werden, um Währung zu sein für das Geld. Das Geld verkennt man eben heute vollständig. Geld begreift man nur dann, wenn man es fassen kann als den vollen Gegensatz zu der alten Naturalwirtschaft.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":397,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/329/1919-04-02/p051"}],"english":["GA 329/1919-04-02/p051"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":397,"en_words":416,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10621,"original_word_count":9996,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Liberation of the Human Being as the Basis for a Social Reorganization","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA329/English/SOL2024/19190402p01.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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