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Gustav Landauer — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1870–1919 · Germany · Theorist

Gustav Landauer

The state is a relationship

Socialism built by withdrawal.

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Governance−74
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The German anarchist-socialist who held that socialism is built not by seizing the state but by withdrawing from it into cooperative communities — a libertarian socialism of the small commune.

social

Mystical, communitarian progressive.

economic

Common ownership grown from cooperative settlements and communes.

governance

'The state is a condition we can destroy by entering other relationships' — minimal-to-no coercion.

Notable for
  • 'For Socialism'
  • Bavarian Council Republic
  • Communitarian anarchism
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