{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 330/1919-04-28/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The reason for speaking today, as I would like to speak here, is that the social facts are truly loud enough and clear enough to be seen over a large part of the civilized world. And anyone who is able to appreciate them in their true form can see that we are only at the beginning with regard to the movement they are initiating. But it will be well to face the full seriousness of the matter right at the outset. Above all, those who have followed what we now call the social movement, which in this form is more than half a century old, will have noticed that now, when we are facing the facts that have emerged from the terrible world war catastrophe, , long-held thoughts, party opinions, and views seem, one might almost say, like mummies of judgment, walking among us and proving dead to what social facts demand of us today. If we want to arrive at a fruitful opinion, then it is necessary to at least briefly point out the reasons why long-held party opinions of all shades prove so inadequate in the face of facts. Not so long ago, I attended the conference in Bern that was tasked with commenting on the founding of the so-called League of Nations. Today, when it is necessary to speak openly and honestly about all things in order to make any progress at all, it is safe to say that, while the men and women at the League of Nations conference in Bern may have said many important things and expressed many fine ideas seems to be more or less the same as what the statesmen of the European states said to the nations, to the representatives of the nations, in the spring of 1914. I do not intend to go into the details of the matter today, but I would like to point out to this assembly the significant fact that the responsible Foreign Minister of the German Reich dared to say at a crucial meeting in the spring of 1914 that the general political relaxation - please bear in mind, the general relaxation, by which was meant the way to secure world peace for years - had made gratifying progress. Well, it made such progress that it was followed by that catastrophe, as a result of which, to put it mildly, ten to twelve million people in the civilized world were shot dead and three times as many were maimed. This and many other things must be remembered when those who, let it not be denied, talk quite cleverly about world affairs, are, as it were, blind to what is really hidden in the facts as the germ of future events. And with that, I would like to say from the outset, we come to one of the main points we will have to discuss today.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IV. 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Da wird vor allen Dingen denjenigen, welche das verfolgt haben, was wir heute die soziale Bewegung nennen, die ja in dieser ihrer Gestalt mehr als ein halbes Jahrhundert alt ist, aufgefallen sein, daß jetzt, wo wir den Tatsachen, die sich aus der furchtbaren Weltkriegskatastrophe herausgebildet haben, gegenüberstehen, sich lang, lang gehegte Gedanken, Parteimeinungen, Anschauungen, wie, man möchte fast sagen, Urteilsmumien ausnehmen, die unter uns herumwandeln und die sich überall tot erweisen gegenüber dem, was die sozialen Tatsachen heute von uns fordern. Wollen wir zu einer fruchtbaren Meinung kommen, dann ist es wohl notwendig, wenigstens kurz hinzuweisen auf die Ursachen, warum lang gehegte Parteimeinungen aller Schattierungen sich gegenüber den Tatsachen so unzulänglich erweisen. Ich war vor nicht zu langer Zeit anwesend bei jener Konferenz in Bern, welche es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht hat, Stellung zu nehmen zu der Begründung des sogenannten Völkerbundes. Heute, wo es notwendig ist, denn sonst kommen wir keinen Schritt weiter, in allen Dingen offen und ehrlich zu sprechen, darf wohl behauptet werden, daß dasjenige, was bei dieser Völkerbundskonferenz gewiß über manches Bedeutsame, über manches sehr schön Gedachte die Herren und Damen da gesprochen haben in Bern, dem, der die ganze Tiefe, den ganzen Ernst der sozialen Weltbewegung heute ins Auge zu fassen vermag, so erscheint, wie ungefähr das beschaffen war, was die Staatsmänner der europäischen Staaten im Frühling des Jahres 1914 zu den Völkern, zu den Vertretungen der Völker gesprochen haben. Ich will im einzelnen auf die Dinge heute nicht eingehen, möchte aber doch auch vor dieser Versammlung auf die bezeichnende Tatsache hinweisen, daß der verantwortliche Außenminister des Deutschen Reiches in einer entscheidenden Sitzung des Frühlings 1914 zu sagen wagte, die allgemeine politische Entspannung — bedenken Sie bitte, die allgemeine Entspannung, mit der gemeint war der Weg zu einer Sicherung des Weltfriedens für Jahre -, die hätte erfreuliche Fortschritte gemacht. Nun, sie hat solche Fortschritte gemacht, daß auf sie folgte jene Katastrophe, durch welche, gering gerechnet, zehn bis zwölf Millionen Menschen der zivilisierten Welt totgeschossen und dreimal soviel zu Krüppeln geschlagen worden sind. Daran und an manches andere muß man sich erinnern, wenn jetzt diejenigen, die über die Weltvorgänge, das soll ja nicht geleugnet werden, recht gescheit reden, gewissermaßen blind sind gegenüber dem, was in den Tatsachen als Keim für das Zukunftsgeschehen wirklich verborgen liegt. 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