Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Frank Thomas Smith
Email: franksmith@vdolores.com.ar
We thank Rudolf Steiner Press, London and Frank Thomas Smith for permission to publish this book on the Internet. This version has been compiled by David J. Heaf to whom any correspondence regarding typographical errors and/or ommissions should be directed. To facilitate searching, page numbering from the printed book is retained. Page numbers appear in brackets at the beginning of the page's text.
Threefolding of the Social Organism Home Page
First published in English under the title The Threefold Commonwealth by
Anthroposophical Publishing Company, London, 1923
Second Edition revised and abridged by F. C. Heckel entitled The Threefold Social Order,
Anthroposophic Press Inc., New York, 1966
Reprinted 1972 (available concurrently with the Third Edition)
Third Edition, new unabridged unabridged translation by F. T. Smith, Rudolf Steiner Press,
1977
The German Text is published under the title: Die Kernpunkte der Sozialen Frage in den
Lebensnotwendigkeiten der Gegenwart und Zukunft (Vol. No. 23 in the Bibliographical
Survey, 1961).
This English edition is published in agreement with the Rudolf Steiner-Nachlassverwaltung,
Dornach, Switzerland.
Ó Rudolf Steiner Press, London, 1977. Registered office: 35
Park Road, London, NW1 6XT
85440 311 6 (hardback) ISBN 85440 312 4 (paperback)
A new edition of the book translated by Matthew Barton and entitled Towards Social Renewal, Rethinking the Basis of Society will be published by Rudolf Steiner Press in July 1999.
CONTENTS
Translator's Foreword (p.5)
Preface to the Fourth German Edition 1920 (p.9)
Preliminary Remarks Concerning the Purpose of this Book (p.23)
Chapter One: The True Nature of the Social Question, Apprehended from the Life of Modern Mankind (p.29)
Chapter Two: Finding Real Solutions to the Social Problems of the Day (p.53)
Chapter Three: Capitalism and Social Ideas (Capital, Human Labour) (p.83)
Chapter Four: International Relations between Social Organisms (p.127)
Appendix: To the German People and the Civilized World (p.141)
Notes (p.147)