What is Societal Three-Folding?
Social Three folding is a sociological theory that suggests increasing the independence of society’s three primary realms (economy, politics and culture) in such a way that those three realms can mutually correct each other in an ongoing process. The movement aims for equality of rights in political life, freedom in cultural life and associative cooperation in economic life. Steiner held that polity, culture and economy have been growing increasingly independent of one another and will naturally tend to continue to do so. Consciously effecting stages of this independence thus works in accordance with society’s natural evolution. It is socially destructive when one of the spheres attempts to control another.