- (cont.) economic life. In this economic life, only business is to be done. That is why I often had to argue that within this economic administration actual legal questions are not to be decided at all. These actual legal questions are to be decided within the democratic life of the state. So, for example, within the democratic life of the state, decisions are to be made above all about labor law; decisions are to be made about the length of working hours and about other rights that one working person has vis-à-vis another working person. Everything that relates to such rights is to be regulated on a democratic basis in a kind of parliament, or whatever you want to call it, which arises from quite general suffrage.
Steiner on democracy in Towards Social Renewal, p.47:
…a political state will [in the threefold social organism Steiner is arguing for]…be based on the impulses in human consciousness which are nowadays referred to as democratic.
On p.79:The legal and rights sphere’s fundamentally democratic focus, which has to do with what affects all people in the same way, will make sure that ownership rights do not gradually become ownership wrongs.
For Steiner, the ideal of “cultural freedom” covered not only the usual domains of religion, science, art, speech, intellect, and media, but also all of education. All parents, he thought, should have the right to the resources necessary to be able to choose a non-state school for their children. All schools and universities he said, should become independent of the state. In more than one place, Steiner implicitly or explicitly disapproved of compulsory education laws. See, for example, p.58 of Towards Social Renewal.
- Steiner. Betriebsräte und Sozialisierung, CW Vol.331.
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As yet these discussion evenings appear to be unavailable in English. - Ibid. pp.59, 165-167, 170-173.
- Ibid. pp.113–114.
- Ibid. pp.274-275.
- Ibid. p.272, 281.
- Ibid. p.278.
- Ibid. pp.274–5.
- Rudolf Steiner. Economics: The World as One Economy, ed. Christopher Budd (Canterbury, England, 1993) CW Vols.340 and 341, p.53.
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