{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 330/1919-05-13/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It might seem as if, in the events of the great world catastrophe, which today is at the “Versailles” stage, the topic: the future of capital and human labor, seems somewhat unfounded. However, following the events in their depths, one might perhaps point out that these two topics: world catastrophe and that to which today's reflection is to be devoted, are intimately connected. For it must be more or less clear to anyone who has observed the events of recent years with an open and alert mind that something of what could be called world capitalism on a large scale has led to this so-called world war, that this world capitalism behaves, as you painfully know today, in its own way within the so-called conditions of peace, and that through a large part of the civilized world today, what could be called the demand directed precisely against capitalism is already going like a mighty historical opposition. Thus, the contradiction between capital and human labor is perhaps the deepest, most significant problem of our time. Capitalism ultimately rose to what can be called, and often has been called, imperialism. Human labor gasped under the rule of this imperialism. And if you take a closer look at the most significant characteristic of capitalism, you will find that it effectively came to an end in the terrible world catastrophe. What is one of the main characteristics of the capitalist world economic order? It is this: that man's working life, his enrichment, is based on the so-called profitability, the investability, of capital. Now I ask you: how much of the causes of the horror of the catastrophe can be traced back to the investability of capital on a large scale? To what extent were the struggles actually fought for the expansion of the investability of capital by certain imperialisms? And so it is already apparent, and will become more and more so, that from the depths of humanity rises and will rise the demand: How do we come to a reorganization of human existence, after those forms which the world economic order under capitalism, imperialism, has assumed, firstly, to such a high degree have shown themselves to be a disaster for humanity, but secondly, have long been leading to their own destruction? And so, with what we are discussing today, we are actually discussing the contrast between capital and labor, a declining world economic order on the one hand, and a rising world economic order on the other.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. The Future of Capital and Human Labor","site_heading":null,"date":"1919-05-13","location":null,"word_count":414,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/330/1919-05-13/p003","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","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/SOL2024/19190513p02.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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Denn eigentlich muß jedem mehr oder weniger klar sein, der mit offenen, wachen Seelensinnen die Ereignisse der letzten Jahre beobachtet hat, daß etwas von dem, was man den Weltkapitalismus im großen Stile nennen könnte, eingemündet ist in diesen sogenannten Weltkrieg, daß sich dieser Weltkapitalismus in der Weise, wie es Ihnen schmerzlich bekannt ist heute, in seiner Art gebärdet innerhalb der sogenannten Friedensbedingungen, und daß durch einen großen Teil der zivilisierten Welt heute schon wie eine mächtige geschichtliche Opposition dasjenige geht, was man nennen könnte die Forderung, die sich richtet gerade gegen den Kapitalismus. So liegt eigentlich in dem Gegensatz Kapital und menschliche Arbeitskraft vielleicht das tiefste, das bedeutungsvollste Problem unserer Zeit verborgen. Der Kapitalismus schwang sich zuletzt auf zu dem, was genannt werden kann, auch oft genannt worden ist, der Imperialismus, Die menschliche Arbeitskraft keuchte unter der Herrschaft dieses Imperialismus. Und sieht man etwas genauer hin auf das bedeutsamste Kennzeichen des Kapitalismus, so findet man gerade, daß er gewissermaßen seinen Auslauf fand in der furchtbaren Weltkatastrophe. Welches ist denn eines der hauptsächlichsten Kennzeichen der kapitalistischen Weltwirtschaftsordnung? Es ist dies, daß der Mensch ausgeht für sein Erwerbsleben, für seine Bereicherung von der sogenannten Rentabilität, der Anlagefähigkeit des Kapitals. Nun frage ich Sie: Wieviel ist denn in den Ursachen der Schreckenskatastrophe von dem darinnen, was sich zurückführt auf die Anlagefähigkeit von Kapitalien im großen? In wie weitem Maße wurde denn eigentlich gekämpft für die Erweiterung der Anlagefähigkeit von Kapitalien gewisser Imperialismen? Und so zeigt sich schon jetzt, und so wird sich immer mehr und mehr zeigen, daß aus den Tiefen der Menschheit herauf sich erhebt und erheben wird die Forderung: Wie kommen wir zu einer Neugestaltung des menschlichen Daseins, nachdem diejenigen Formen, welche die Weltwirtschaftsordnung unter dem Kapitalismus, Imperialismus, angenommen hat, erstens in so hohem Grade sich als Unheil der Menschheit gezeigt haben, zweitens aber schon lange daran sind, sich ihrer eigenen Vernichtung entgegenzuführen? Und so besprechen wir eigentlich mit dem, was wir heute besprechen als den Gegensatz von Kapital und Arbeit, eine untergehende Weltwirtschaftsordnung auf der einen Seite, und eine aufsteigende Weltwirtschaftsordnung auf der anderen Seite.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":408,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/330/1919-05-13/p003"}],"english":["GA 330/1919-05-13/p003"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":408,"en_words":414,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10155,"original_word_count":9700,"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/SOL2024/19190513p02.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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