{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 330/1919-05-13/p012","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now, the creed of the laborer, at least of the laborer who has developed into the modern age under the soul-destroying capitalism, this creed is: I live from my labor! In today's social order, it is just as much a mere belief, an unjustified belief, that one can live from one's work as it is an unjustified belief that one can live from some capital, although the belief that one can live from one's work has at least a certain limited truth. It is just that it is not completely true within our social order. For within our social order, which is based on the division of labor, in order to be able to live from this labor, a threefold activity of the human being is necessary, which proceeds from the spiritual culture of the time in the broadest sense. Firstly, there is the inventive activity that leads to the means of production, and secondly, there is the organizational activity that leads to the harmonization between the means of production and human labor. Thirdly, there is the speculative activity that leads to the utilization of what is produced with the help of labor on the means of production, and to the transfer of the products to the corresponding members of human society. Without this threefold spiritual activity, labor is unfruitful in the social organism based on the division of labor. But this points us from the outset to what, as I said, sheds light in a certain way on what is needed today. We just have to look at what is there in the right light. Today's society works under the influence of capital. The worker feels quite rightly when he regards the means of production as the essence of capital, that is to say, that which must be created by human labor and does not lead directly to consumption, that is, is not a direct consumer good, is not a direct luxury, but what serves to produce consumer goods and luxury goods. Socialism seeks to bring these means of production into a social order that is different from the one into which they came under the influence of the capitalist economic order of modern times. Now, strangely enough, one can say that it is already apparent that in a certain sense the means of production are something in themselves, that they can be separated from people. Just compare how, in the older economic forms, what the human being needed as a craftsman to produce was grounded in his or her humanity. Now compare everything that is done on a large scale today with the help of modern means of production, how it can be separated, as it were, as a material good from human individuality. We know that when a sum of means of production that make up a business is sold – it can be sold by a person or a corporation to another person or another corporation, both of whom may have nothing to do with these means of production other than to draw their royalties, their profit – it shows how, to the greatest extent, the means of production are detached from their owners. Here we have something that exists in reality, which in the future only has to be turned into its opposite in a corresponding way, and then we come to a real socialization of the means of production. I have tried to indicate such a thing in my book “The Key Points of the Social Question in the Necessities of Present and Future Life”.","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":591,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/330/1919-05-13/p012","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 innerhalb unserer auf Arbeitsteilung beruhenden Gesellschaftsordnung ist, damit man von dieser Arbeit leben kann, eine dreifache Tätigkeit des Menschen notwendig, die ausgeht von der geistigen Kultur der Zeitim weitesten Sinne. Erstens ist notwendig die erfinderische Tätigkeit, welche zu den Produktionsmitteln führt, und zweitens die organisatorische Tätigkeit, welche zu der Harmonisierung führt zwischen den Produktionsmitteln und menschlicher Arbeit, und drittens ist notwendig die spekulative Tätigkeit, welche führt zur Verwertung desjenigen, was mit Hilfe der Arbeit an den Produktionsmitteln produziert wird, zur Überführung der Erzeugnisse an die entsprechenden Glieder der menschlichen Gesellschaft. Ohne diese dreifache geistige Tätigkeit ist Arbeit in dem sozialen Organismus, der auf Arbeitsteilung beruht, etwas Unfruchtbares. Damit wird man aber von vornherein auf dasjenige hingewiesen, was, wie ich schon sagte, in einer gewissen Weise Licht verbreitet über das heute Notwendige. Man muß, was da ist, nur in richtigem Lichte anschauen. Die heutige Gesellschaft arbeitet unter dem Einfluß des Kapitals. Der Arbeitende empfindet ganz recht, wenn er als das Wesentliche des Kapitals die Produktionsmittel ansieht, das heißt dasjenige, was durch die Menschenarbeit geschaffen werden muß und nicht unmittelbar zum Verbrauch führt, also kein unmittelbarer Bedarfsartikel, kein unmittelbarer Genußartikel ist, sondern was zur Herstellung von Bedarfsund Genußmitteln dient. Diese Produktionsmittel will der Sozialismus in eine andere gesellschaftliche Ordnung bringen als die ist, in die sie unter den Einflüssen der kapitalistischen Wirtschaftsordnung der neueren Zeit gekommen sind. Nun kann man merkwürdigerweise sagen, es zeigt sich schon, daß in einer gewissen Weise die Produktionsmittel etwas für sich sind, daß sie abgesondert werden können von den Menschen. Man vergleiche nur, wie in den älteren Wirtschaftsformen das, was der Mensch brauchte als Handwerker, um zu produzieren, wie das begründet war in seiner menschlichen Qualität. Nun, man vergleiche dann alles, was heute im großen getrieben wird mit Hilfe der modernen Produktionsmittel großen Stils, wie das gewissermaßen als Sachgut abgesondert werden kann von der menschlichen Individualität. Wir wissen ja, wenn man eine Summe von Produktionsmitteln, die einen Betrieb ausmachen, verkauft - es kann sie ein Mensch oder eine Aktiengesellschaft verkaufen an einen anderen Menschen, an eine andere Aktiengesellschaft, beide haben vielleicht gar nichts anderes zu tun mit diesen Produktionsmitteln, als daß sie ihre Tantiemen, ihren Profit beziehen -, so zeigt sich, wie in weitestem Umfange eine Loslösung der Produktionsmittel von den Besitzern besteht. Hier haben wir durch die Wirklichkeit etwas, das in der Zukunft nur in entsprechender Weise in sein Gegenteil gewendet werden muß, dann kommen wir zu einer wirklichen Sozialisierung der Produktionsmittel. Eine solche anzugeben, habe ich versucht in meinem Buche «Die Kernpunkte der sozialen Frage in den Lebensnotwendigkeiten der Gegenwart und Zukunft».","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":515,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/330/1919-05-13/p012"}],"english":["GA 330/1919-05-13/p012"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":515,"en_words":591,"ratio":1.15,"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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