{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 330/1919-04-28/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus the proletariat could not help but feel that it was part of the bare economic life. After all, everything was organized so that only a few could really enjoy the fruits of this intellectual life. But what did the proletariat experience? In the economic sphere, it experienced capital, the effectiveness of its own labor, and the circulation of goods, the production and consumption of goods. That was all that the proletariat really experienced. But when it looked at the state, which was used in this way by the ruling and leading classes of modern times, as I have just described, the proletarian felt something that every human being can feel who is mentally healthy. One can reflect a great deal on what the important concept of right actually means within humanity, or rather, within humanity. In the end, we will say to ourselves: the sense of justice is as fundamental to human nature as the perception of the colors blue and red is to the healthy eye. You can always talk about the red or blue color to someone with a healthy eye, but you cannot evoke any abstract idea of it. In the same way, you can talk about the individual rights to any healthy person. The broad masses of the proletariat also felt this in the periods when the democratic principle had led them to reflect on themselves at the machine and within capitalism. But then this proletariat looked to the state. From its point of view, what did it think it would find within this state? Truly not the realization of the right, but the class struggle with its class privileges and class disadvantages. Here we have another example of where bourgeois thinking has proved itself to be powerless. On the one hand, it was compelled to allow democracy to prevail; on the other hand, it did nothing to draw the consequences of this democracy and did not really dare to exclude from the state that which must be excluded, and to include in the sphere of the state that which must be included in the sphere of the state.","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":354,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/330/1919-04-28/p019","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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Sah es aber auf den Staat hin, welcher in dieser Weise seinem Rahmen nach benützt wurde, wie ich es eben dargestellt habe von den leitenden, führenden Schichten der neueren Zeit, dann fühlte der Proletarier etwas, was jeder Mensch fühlen kann, der seelisch gesund organisiert ist. Man kann viel nachdenken darüber, was der wichtige Begriff des Rechtes innerhalb der Menschheit, besser gesagt, innerhalb der Menschlichkeit, eigentlich bedeutet. Man wird sich zuletzt sagen: Das Rechtsbewußtsein ist etwas so Ursprüngliches gegenüber der menschlichen Natur wie dem gesunden Auge gegenüber die Wahrnehmung der blauen oder roten Farbe. Zu dem gesunden Auge kann man immer sprechen von der roten oder blauen Farbe, aber man kann nicht irgendeine abstrakte Vorstellung davon hervorrufen. So kann man zu jedem gesunden Menschen über die einzelnen Rechte sprechen. Das fühlte auch die breite Masse des Proletariats in den Zeiten, in denen es durch das demokratische Prinzip zur Selbstbesinnung gekommen ist an der Maschine und im Kapitalismus drinnen. Dann aber sah dieses Proletariat hin nach dem Staate. Was glaubte es von seinem Standpunkte aus mit Recht innerhalb dieses Staates zu finden? Wahrhaftig nicht die Verwirklichung des Rechtes, sondern den Klassenkampf mit seinen Klassenvorrechten und Klassenbenachteiligungen. Hier haben wir wieder ein Beispiel, wo das bürgerliche Denken sich kraftlos erwiesen hat. 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