Highlights of this lecture, given by Rudolf Steiner at Stuttgart, Germany in 1919: New ideas must emerge from criticism of what the leading classes have done. Rethinking some socialist views required. Misunderstanding of the relationships between economic and intellectual life. Prejudice against liberation of intellectual life because of its undesirable development through dependence on state and economic life. Inhumane conditions arose due to the thoughtlessness of the leading bourgeois social class. Deification of the state is just as wrong for the worker as it is for the bourgeoisie. The concern of the democratic state is purely legal life, i.e.

the regulation of all employment and property relationships, regardless of economic aspects. Conflating economic issues with political ones provokes wrong reactions, such as strikes. Hope for the human consciousness of the proletariat. Also provided is Steiner's Appeal to the German people and the civilized world.