14 Sunday Feb 2016
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“It is in revolution’s fire, in its enthusiasm, its brotherhood, its aggressiveness that the image and the feeling of positive unification awakens; a unification that comes through a connecting quality: love as force”.
Gustav Landauer, Revolution and Other Writings
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23 Saturday Jan 2016
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“It is time for the insight that there is no individual, but only unities and communities. It is not true that collective names designate only a sum of individuals: on the contrary, individuals are only manifestations and points of reference, electric sparks of something grand and whole”.
Gustav Landauer, Skepsis und Mystik
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18 Monday Jan 2016
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“All ownership of things, all land-ownership is in reality ownership of men. Whoever withholds the earth from others, from the masses, forces these others to work for him. Private ownership is theft and slave-holding”.
Gustav Landauer, For Socialism
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01 Friday Jan 2016
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“The people, the thinkers, the poets are a powder keg, loaded with spirit and the power of creative destruction”.
Gustav Landauer, Revolution and Other Writings
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11 Friday Dec 2015
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“Anarchism’s lone objective is to end the fight of men against men and to unite humanity so that each individual can unfold his natural potential without obstruction”.
Gustav Landauer, Revolution and Other Writings
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11 Sunday Oct 2015
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“The plant dwells in the seed, just as the seed is only the quintessence of the infinite chain of ancestral plants. Mankind obtains its genuine existence from the humanness of the individual, just as this humanness of the individual is only the heir of the infinite generations of the past and all their mutual relationships. What has become is the becoming, the microcosm is the macrocosm. The individual is the people, the spirit is the community, the idea is the bond of unity”.
Gustav Landauer, For Socialism
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01 Thursday Oct 2015
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“Earlier there were corporate groups, clans, gilds, fraternities, communities, and they all interrelated to form society. Today there is coercion, the letter of the law, the state”.
Gustav Landauer, Aufruf zum Sozialismus
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08 Tuesday Sep 2015
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“May the revolution bring rebirth. May, since we need nothing so much as new, uncorrupted men rising up out of the unknown darkness and depths, may these renewers, purifiers, saviors not be lacking to our nation. Long live the revolution, and may it grow and rise to new levels in hard, wonderful years. May the nations be imbued with the new, creative spirit out of their task, out of the new conditions, out of the primeval, eternal and unconditional depths, the new spirit that really does create new conditions. May the revolution produce religion, a religion of action, life, love, that makes men happy, redeems them and overcomes impossible situations”.
Gustav Landauer, For Socialism
17 Wednesday Jun 2015
“We must have the earth again. The communities of socialism must redistribute the land. The earth is no one’s private property. Let the earth have no masters; then we men are free”.
Gustav Landauer, For Socialism
07 Sunday Jun 2015
Posted in capitalism, civilization, socialism
“Marxism, despite its revolutionary appearance, functions in fact as an impediment to socialism… In the light of Landauer’s critique, nineteenth century scientific socialism ceases to appear as a radical critique of the status quo. Rather, behind its revolutionary pretenses, it buttresses the development of capitalist structures”.
Russell Berman and Tim Luke, Introduction to For Socialism by Gustav Landauer
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