{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 330/1919-05-13/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What does the capitalist actually believe? The capitalist believes that he lives off his capital, or if he is economical, that he lives off the interest of his capital. That is his belief. He does not think much about this belief, because he does not suspect that no one can live off capital and interest. And he also does not suspect that there is a certain justification when a very significant political economist, who even became a Prussian minister for once, uttered the words that capital is the fifth wheel on the economic wagon. You really have to consider what that actually means. It means nothing less than that human society does not actually need what is considered capital today. But in reality, this capital feeds many people, very many people. These people are all nourished by the fifth wheel on the economic wagon, that is, they feed themselves in such a way that if they did not feed themselves, the economic wagon would also move, only they themselves would have to do something other than feed themselves from capital, namely work. You see, that sheds light on the capitalist's belief. It is very difficult to fight against this belief, as it is generally very difficult to fight against religious beliefs, for the simple reason that religious beliefs are intimately connected with human nature. And no matter how often you tell the capitalist: your capital does not create life, as long as your capital is not transformed by the social order into a power, into the power that you have over other people through your capital, who work and provide you with a living through their labor. Anyone who looks at these things thoroughly will realize that capital only has any significance when viewed from the standpoint of this question of power. So much for the moment about the capitalist's creed.","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":311,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/330/1919-05-13/p011","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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Es heißt das nichts Geringeres als: die menschliche Gesellschaft braucht eigentlich das, was heute als Kapital angesehen wird, nicht. In Wirklichkeit aber nährt dieses Kapital viele Menschen, sehr viele Menschen. Diese Menschen werden alle durch das fünfte Rad am Wirtschaftswagen genährt, das heißt sie nähren sich so, daß, wenn sie sich nicht nähren würden, der Wirtschaftswagen auch fahren würde, nur daß sie selbst etwas anderes tun müßten, als sich vom Kapital zu nähren, nämlich arbeiten. Sehen Sie, das beleuchtet den Glauben des Kapitalisten. Es ist schwer anzukämpfen gegen diesen Glauben, wie überhaupt gegen Glaubensbekenntnisse außerordentlich schwer anzukämpfen ist aus dem einfachen Grunde, weil Glaubensbekenntnisse intim mit der menschlichen Natur verknüpft sind. Und Sie mögen dem Kapitalisten noch so oft sagen: Durch dein Kapital entsteht doch nicht Leben, solange dein Kapital sich nicht umwandelt durch die gesellschaftliche Ordnung in eine Macht, in die Macht, die du durch dein Kapital über andere Menschen hast, die arbeiten und dir durch ihre Arbeit den Lebensunterhalt verschaffen. Wer diese Dinge gründlich betrachtet, der merkt, daß das Kapital erst dann eine Bedeutung hat, wenn man es vom Standpunkte dieser Machtfrage ins Auge faßt. 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