{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 330/1919-04-28/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In the Eisenach Social Program of 1869, we see emerging from the very dark, dull spiritual depths of the proletariat the demand for, as it was put, “a fairer wage for manual labor within the social society.” But then, after a relatively short time, as early as 1875 in the so-called Gotha Program, these demands took on a completely different, I might say actually communist form. At least in so far as they were openly expressed, they no longer dealt with the fair remuneration of labor, but with the equitable distribution and equalization of goods according to human needs. Then we saw how, nevertheless, the basic tenor of a political program remained alive in the proletarian movement. Until the beginning of the 1890s, the proletarian demands more or less clearly expressed the aspiration to a balancing out of social inequalities and, above all, to overcoming the principle of wages. Then we see how this political color of the program, I might say, strangely recedes, and how a purely economic program, the socialization of the means of production, the wholly cooperative nature of the work, becomes the theme. And one could go further. I am only hinting at the fundamentals. But anyone who really engages with this development of the modern social movement must also look at the other side. They must ask themselves: What has not been done to the detriment of humanity in the face of what has emerged! What could have been done? What I am about to say is not meant as a criticism of historical developments, for I know as well as anyone, of course, in what sense historical developments are necessary, and how nonsensical it is to send a moral or other condemning criticism into the past. But it is another matter to learn from the present for the future. What should have happened cannot be said otherwise: We have had guiding, leading personalities within the upper stratum of the human social order – these guiding, leading strata, have they shown themselves inclined to understand more deeply, from what they have brought forth as social experience, as social science on the basis of their class preference in more recent times, what the proletariat wants, than this proletariat itself?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IV. The Key Points of the Social Question in the Necessities of Life In the Present and the Future","site_heading":null,"date":"1919-04-28","location":null,"word_count":373,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/330/1919-04-28/p006","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 Reorganization of the Social Organism","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA330/English/SOL2024/19190428p02.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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Da handelt es sich nicht mehr, wenigstens nicht in dem, was man bewußt aussprach, darum, die Arbeit in gerechter Weise zu entlohnen, sondern da handelte es sich bereits darum, Güter nach den Bedürfnissen der Menschen in irgendeiner Weise gerecht zur Verteilung, zur Ausgleichung zu bringen. Dann wiederum sahen wir, wie aber doch in der proletarischen Bewegung dasjenige lebendig bleibt, was ich den Grundton nennen möchte eines politischen Programms. In den proletarischen Forderungen lebte bis in den Beginn der neunziger Jahre mehr oder weniger deutlich, daß angestrebt wird eine Ausgleichung der sozialen Ungleichheiten und vor allen Dingen eine Überwindung des Prinzips des Arbeitslohnes. Dann sehen wir, wie diese politische Farbe des Programms, ich möchte sagen, merkwürdig zurücktritt, und wie ein rein wirtschaftliches Programm, die Vergesellschaftung der Produktionsmittel, die gesamtgenossenschaftliche Art der Arbeit, zum Thema wird. Und so könnte man noch weiter gehen. Ich will ja nur das Prinzipielle andeuten. Wer wirklich eingeht auf dieses Werden der modernen sozialen Bewegung, der muß nun aber auch nach der anderen Seite hinüberblicken. Er muß sich sagen: Was ist alles zum Unheil der Menschheit nicht geschehen gegenüber dem, was da auftrat! Was hätte geschehen können? Was ich jetzt sage, soll nicht eine Kritik geschichtlicher Entwickelungen sein, denn ich weiß selbstverständlich so gut wie jeder andere, in welchem Sinne geschichtliche Entwickelungen notwendig sind, und wie unsinnig es ist, etwa gar eine moralische oder sonstige verurteilende Kritik in die Vergangenheit zu senden. Etwas anderes ist es aber, an manchem Versäumten für die Gegenwart gerade zu lernen. Was hätte geschehen sollen, das kann ja doch wohl nicht anders als so ausgesprochen werden: Wir hatten leitende, führende Persönlichkeiten innerhalb der Oberschichte der menschlichen sozialen Ordnung - diese leitenden, führenden Schichten, haben sie sich geneigt gezeigt, aus dem, was sie als soziale Erfahrung, als soziale Wissenschaft auf Grundlage ihrer Klassenbevorzugung heraufgebracht haben in die neuere Zeit, tiefer zu verstehen, was das Proletariat will, als dieses Proletariat selbst?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":380,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/330/1919-04-28/p006"}],"english":["GA 330/1919-04-28/p006"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":380,"en_words":373,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9703,"original_word_count":9371,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Reorganization of the Social Organism","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA330/English/SOL2024/19190428p02.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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