{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 330/1919-05-13/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is remarkable how the most comprehensive impulses are received with understanding by those who have personally experienced the inadequacies of human development in recent times. It is more difficult to speak to those who today are still, as it were, standing there with the remnants of the old economic, legal and intellectual order; who carry over into the new era what they have acquired, inherited or otherwise appropriated from the old order. They are attached to their possessions and to their ideas. And it becomes difficult for them to find anything practical except for that which enables them to preserve, at least to a certain extent, what they have acquired, inherited or otherwise appropriated. Today, many people, and all the more those who belong to the latter category, lack not only the opportunity to seek trust in order to achieve a new beginning through trust between people, but they even lack faith in this trust; they lack faith that the understanding of those who want to understand great impulses is genuine and honest. I do not wish to criticize, I only wish to discuss facts, but facts which make it so extremely difficult to advance today by means of that which alone can advance us - the power that lies in man for the understanding of other men. Today it is infinitely difficult to popularize this basis of all real socialism: understanding of one man for the other. For it is a strange fact that in our time, when the call for socialism sounds so significant, so magnificent, it is in this time that the strongest anti-social instincts live in the depths of the human soul. This is why, clouded by these anti-social instincts, it is actually very difficult for few people today to gain sufficient, realistic, truly practical insights into what is necessary for the further development of humanity. What has been discussed in the previous lectures and what will be discussed today and next time has not been plucked out of the clouds. It has been taken from real life. For much of what is required by the impulses of the threefold social organism is, in the secret desire of many people, actually already there, already there in the sense that it wants to move from the depths of the soul to the surface, that it wants to fight for its existence, and that only the institutions of our present-day intellectual, legal and economic order want to hold back these forces that are pushing to the surface. The world-wide struggle between capital and labor, which is now agitating the world, makes one particularly aware of the strange phenomena whereby people today are working out of their old state economic order to counteract what wants to fight its way up for their own good. Do not expect me to start with some more or less satisfactory definition of capital and human labor. In reality, one does not fight against concepts and ideas, in reality one has to fight against forces and people. In reality, however, one also often has to fight against delusion, inadequacy, even blindness. In this respect, things are extraordinarily strange today.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. 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Und schwierig wird es ihnen, anderes für praktisch zu finden als lediglich dasjenige, welches ihnen möglich macht, dieses Erworbene, Ererbte oder sonstwie Angeeignete wenigstens bis zu einem gewissen Grade zu erhalten. Es fehlt heute eigentlich vielen Menschen, und um so mehr solchen Menschen, die zu der zuletzt angeführten Klasse gehören, nicht nur die Möglichkeit, Vertrauen zu suchen, um durch Vertrauen der Menschen zueinander zu einem Neuaufbau zu kommen, sondern es fehlt ihnen sogar der Glaube an dieses Vertrauen, es fehlt ihnen der Glaube, daß das Verständnis derjenigen, die große Impulse verstehen wollen, ein echtes und ehrliches ist. Ich will nicht Kritik üben, ich will nur Tatsachen besprechen, Tatsachen aber, welche es so unendlich schwierig machen, heute durch dasjenige vorwärts zu kommen, durch das einzig und allein vorwärts gekommen werden kann - die Kraft, die in dem Menschen liegt für das Verständnis des anderen Menschen. Unendlich schwer ist es heute, diese Grundlage alles wirklichen Sozialismus populär zu machen: Verständnis des einen Menschen für den anderen Menschen. Denn merkwürdig, in unserer Zeit, in der so bedeutsam, so großartig der Ruf nach Sozialismus ertönt, in dieser Zeit leben die stärksten antisozialen Triebe bis in die Tiefe der Menschenseele hinein. Daher kommt es auch, daß es, getrübt durch diese antisozialen Triebe, heute eigentlich wenigen Menschen möglich ist, hinreichende, wirklichkeitsgemäße, wahrhaft praktische Anschauungen über dasjenige zu bekommen, was uns für die Weiterentwickelung der Menschheit notwendig ist. Das, wovon in den vorigen Vorträgen gesprochen wurde, und wovon heute und das nächste Mal gesprochen werden soll, das ist nicht aus Wolkenkuckucksheim heruntergeholt, das ist genommen aus dem unmittelbaren Leben. Denn viel von dem, was gerade durch die Impulse des dreigliedrigen sozialen Organismus gefordert wird, das ist in dem geheimen Verlangen vieler Menschen im Grunde genommen eigentlich schon da, schon da in der Weise, daß es sich aus Seelenuntergründen an die Oberfläche bewegen will, daß es sein Dasein erkämpfen will, und daß nur die Einrichtungen unserer bisherigen Geistes-, Rechts- und Wirtschaftsordnung diese an die Oberfläche drängenden Mächte zurückhalten wollen. Besonders stark wird man aufmerksam auf die merkwürdigen Erscheinungen, wie heute die Menschen aus ihrer alten Staatswirtschaftsordnung heraus geradezu entgegenarbeiten dem, was sich zu ihrem eigenen Heile in die Höhe kämpfen will, wenn man gerade den die Welt heute aufwühlenden Kampf zwischen dem Kapital und der menschlichen Arbeitskraft ins Auge faßt. Erwarten Sie nicht von mir, daß ich Ihnen beginnen werde mit irgendeiner mehr oder weniger befriedigenden Definition des Kapitals und der menschlichen Arbeitskraft. In der Wirklichkeit kämpft man nicht gegen Begriffe und Ideen, in der Wirklichkeit hat man zu kämpfen gegen Kräfte und Menschen. In der Wirklichkeit hat man aber auch zu kämpfen oftmals gegen den Irrwahn, die Unzulänglichkeit, ja die Blindheit. In bezug darauf liegen die Dinge heute außerordentlich merkwürdig.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":534,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/330/1919-05-13/p006"}],"english":["GA 330/1919-05-13/p006"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":534,"en_words":526,"ratio":0.99,"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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