FREE EQUAL AND MUTUAL: Rebalancing Society for the Common Good

With resurgent nationalism, global warming, rising inequality, blowback from wars, our market dominated society is in meltdown. Rudolf Steiner’s free, equal and mutual vision offers a timely alternative for rebalancing society. This pushes back ‘the market’ from politics and culture. How? Healthy boundaries are reasserted between the private business sector, the public state sector and the plural cultural sector. This shapes a dynamic threefold society based on mutuality, equality and freedom - for people and planet.

Rudolf Steiner campaigned for three-fold society in the war-torn Germany of 1917-19, activated by the compelling need to create the conditions for lasting peace. He recognised that the dynamics of politics, economic life and culture were very different. Running a business like a government department or school is a recipe for failure. He saw self-determination for people as healthy, but prophetically saw ‘national self-determination’ under Versailles as a recipe for toxic nationalism and more war.