Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/679/en

Human fellowship in economic life, too, grows out of a community judgement. Where individual judgement rules in its place, egoism forces its way through; competition arises, mutual exploitation, displacement rivalry, agrarian industrialism. Community judgement in economic collaboration emerges from interest in what the other does. The questioning stance — "Where is there need, where is help required?" — must be alive in the community toward each individual. The boundaries between areas of responsibility, both within the operation and in relation to associated processing enterprises and farm marketing, must become flexible and permeable for the sake of mutual assistance. The disposition to seek the ground of one's own economic activity in the need of the other creates for thinking consciousness a new field of experience — one that makes the striving of others its own content of perception. On this path there arises an associative overview of the fields of activity; formative thinking points the will toward associative action — that is, action in brotherliness. On these new shores of an economic life grounded in human fellowship, landing attempts are made ever more frequently — in organic wholesale and organic retail trade, for instance, as well as in further processing. The shore itself, however, is the threshold between agricultural primary production and the economically differentiated cycle of labour. At this threshold — the farm boundary — the commodity finds its value: the objective intrinsic worth of primary value-creation out of enlivened and ensouled nature is assessed through the subjective appreciation of the trader and consumer. In associative economic life, this appreciation by each participant can, by virtue of the transparency generally sought, rest on concrete, perceptible facts that ultimately have their origin in the bodily and spiritual-soul needs of fellow human beings. Concretely, this means: biodynamic operations must open themselves to further processing, trade and the consuming public — must enter into dialogue on all practical and developmental questions, seek solutions together, reach agreements, conclude contracts.