GA 189

The Social Question as a Question of Consciousness. The Spiritual Background of the Social Question, Volume I

Die soziale Frage als Bewußtseinsfrage. Die geistigen Hintergründe der sozialen Frage, Band I

Eight lectures, Dornach 15 February to 16 March 1919

Contents (selection)

The Social Question: Question of Act and Event. Judging from mummies of thought. The Appeal "To the German People and to the Cultural World" / Difference between the Proletariat and its Leaders. Spiritual life, state life and economic life / The formation of thought in Marx and its radicalisation in Lenin / Materialist conception of history, theory of class struggle and theory of surplus value versus spiritual science, freedom of thought and true socialism / J. G. Fichte's "Closed Commercial State". The relationship of economic life to the basis of nature and to legal life. Separation of material life and spiritual life. The nature of money. Labour and capital / formation and transformation of capital. The free spiritual life. Liberation of the sciences from state supervision / Hegel's objective idealism. The "Philosophy of Freedom"

Literature

German

• Rudolf Steiner: Die soziale Frage als Bewußtseinsfrage, GA 189 (1980), ISBN 3-7274-1890-7 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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