If there were any justice in this world-at least as far as historical memory goes-then Gustav Landauer would be remembered, right along with Bakunin and Kropotkin, as one of anarchism's most brilliant and original theorists. Instead,...
moreIf there were any justice in this world-at least as far as historical memory goes-then Gustav Landauer would be remembered, right along with Bakunin and Kropotkin, as one of anarchism's most brilliant and original theorists. Instead, history has abetted the crime of his murderers, burying his work in silence. With this anthology, Gabriel Kuhn has single-handedly redressed one of the cruelest gaps in Anglo-American anarchist literature: the absence of almost any English translations of Landauer.
The state is a social relationship; a certain
way of people relating to one another. It can be
destroyed by creating new social relationships;
i.e., by people relating to one another differently.”
– Gustav Landauer
