Contents

Foreword by Joseph Weizenbaum vii

Preface to the First Edition xix
Four Articles from the Newspaper The Social Future

The Threefold Social Organism, Democracy and

Socialism 1
The International Economy and the Threefold

Social Order 15

Culture, Law and Economics 24

The Threefold Order and Social Trust:

Capital and Credit 38

Twenty Articles from the Newspaper The Threefold Social Order

The Threefold Division of the Social Organism,

a Necessity of the Age 52

International Aspects of the Threefold

Social Order 58

Marxism and the Threefold Social Order 66

The Threefold Social Order and Educational Freedom 70

What Is Needed 77

Ability for Work, Will to Work and the

Threefold Social Order 80

What Socialists Do Not See 84

Socialist Stumbling-Blocks 87

What the “New Spirit” Demands 91

Economic Profit and the Spirit of the Age 95

Cultivation of the Spirit and Economic Life 99

Law and Economics 103

Social Spirit and Socialist Superstition 106

The Pedagogical Basis of the Waldorf School 110

Fundamental Fallacy in Social Thought 119

The Roots of Social Life 123

The Basis of the Threefold Social Order 128

Real Enlightenment as the Basis of Social

Thought 130

Longing for New Thoughts 136

Wanted: Insight! 140

Appendix

An Appeal to the German Nation and to the

Civilized World 144

The Way to Save the German Nation 149