{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 330/1919-05-13/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In such a social organism, in which capital circulates freely, only real freedom of labor is possible. For just as private capital ownership is in fact a fifth wheel on the cart in relation to social functions, so human labor power, as the counterpart of capital, has been placed in a dilemma under the rule of capitalism. What is necessary for the recovery of human society is achieved through the circulation of capital that no one owns. What is paid out today, what is extracted from the means of production, what people call their capital or their pension in mortgage certificates, in mortgage bonds or bonds and so on, is absolutely unnecessary in the real process of human development of the social order. It is removed from this social order, and that removes the people who remove it from this social order, making them more or less parasites and those who generate the great forces of discontent within the social organization. Some people will, of course, find everything I have explained here about the circulation of capital highly impractical. I believe that. But to find something impractical, in this case, means nothing more than not wanting to let go of what is the fifth wheel on the wagon of the economic order, that is, having become accustomed to finding only what has proven practical for oneself, for one's own selfishness. But in the future, human beings will have to give themselves over to the social organism with their entire being. It will not be enough for people to sit in their rooms and fantasize about love for their fellow human beings and brotherhood and think very highly of themselves while doing so, and then cut the coupons, which they can only cut because the people in the mines and factories work for them in need and misery so that they can do themselves good in their sermons of philanthropy, love for their fellow human beings and brotherhood.","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":327,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/330/1919-05-13/p015","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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Was heute herausbezahlt, herausgeholt wird aus den Produktionsmitteln, was die Leute in den Hypothekenscheinen, in Pfandbriefen oder Obligationen und so weiter ihr Kapital oder ihre Rente nennen, das ist absolut unnötig im wirklichen Prozeß der menschlichen Entwickelung der gesellschaftlichen Ordnung. Das ist herausgenommen aus dieser Gesellschaftsordnung, und das stellt die Menschen, die es herausnehmen, selber aus dieser Gesellschaftsordnung heraus, macht sie mehr oder weniger zu Parasiten und zu denjenigen, welche die großen Kräfte der Unzufriedenheit innerhalb der gesellschaftlichen Organisation erzeugen. Was ich Ihnen hier auseinandergesetzt habe über die Zirkulation des Kapitals, werden manche Leute selbstverständlich alles höchst unpraktisch finden. Das glaube ich. Aber unpraktisch finden, das heißt in diesem Fall nichts anderes als nicht ablassen wollen von dem, was das fünfte Rad am Wagen der Wirtschaftsordnung ist, das heißt sich angewöhnt haben, nur das praktisch zu finden, was sich für einen selbst, für den Egoismus als praktisch erwiesen hat. Der Mensch wird aber für die Zukunft sich hingeben müssen mit seiner ganzen Wesenheit an den gesellschaftlichen Organismus. Da wird es nicht genügen, daß die Leute in den Zimmern sitzen und über Nächstenliebe, über Brüderlichkeit phantasieren und sich so recht gut finden dabei, und dann die Kupons abschneiden, die sie nur deshalb abschneiden können, weil die Leute in den Bergwerken, in den Fabriken in Not und Elend für sie arbeiten, damit sie sich wohltun können bei ihren Predigten von Menschenliebe, von Nächstenliebe und Brüderlichkeit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":308,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/330/1919-05-13/p015"}],"english":["GA 330/1919-05-13/p015"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":308,"en_words":327,"ratio":1.06,"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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