The brutal implementation of market fundamentalism generates massive human insecurity and inequality. People feel precarious and angry, and afraid for their jobs, homes, children, health, wellbeing, identity, and lifeways. Left/right pendulum politics swings from "more market" to "more state."

Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) saw the dangers of this unstable "market/state" duopoly. He suggested the radical conditions and three-way dynamics of politics, economy, and culture. He saw the urgent need for creating the conditions for lasting peace when campaigning for a threefold "commonwealth" society in war-torn Germany of 1917-1919. He saw self-determination for individuals as healthy, but prophetically saw "national self-determination" under Versailles as a recipe for toxic nationalism and more wars. His alternative was a dynamic society based on mutuality, equality, freedom, and earth-care for the wellbeing of people and the planet.

This anthology of twenty inspiring and practical chapters draws on Steiner's social vision--from Triodos' ethical banking to land for people, biodynamic farming, freeing schools, subtle advocacy, associative economics, and a sustainable, biodynamic food revolution.