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- Eric Voegelin, Hitler and the Germans (Columbia: University of
Missouri Press 2003), 108. - ibid.
- ibid, 58.
- Gustav Landauer, “Through Separation to Community” in
Revolution and Other Writings (Oakland: PM Press, 2010), 100. - This non-linguistic, non rational experience will be explained in
further detail in the next section. - Gustav Landuer, “Through Separation to Community” in
Revolution and Other Writings (Oakland: PM Press, 2010), 99. - ibid, 100.
- As in Voegelin, “symbol” refers to the expression of the experi-
ence of being, which, because it contains non-rational and non-lin-
guistic elements, can only be metaphorical and open. - This will also be explained in more detail in the next section.
- ibid, “Revolution”, 136f.
- Gustav Landauer, “Call to Socialism”, http://theanarchistlibrary.
org/library/gustav-landauer-call-to-socialism, 24. - ibid.
- Gustav Landauer, “Vom geistigen Privileg”, in Antipolitik. 3.1,
ed. Siegbert Wolf (Lich/Hessen: Verlag Edition AV, 2010), 89. - Eugene Lunn, Prophet of Community, The Romantic Socialism
of Gustav Landauer (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), - Landauer distinguishes between Gemeinschaft (community),
possible only when people come together freely through spirit, and
Gesellschaft (society), a mechanistic sum of individuals that occurs
within the state. - Gustav Landauer, “Volk und Land. Dreissig sozialistische
Thesen”, in Antipolitik. 3.1, ed. Siegbert Wolf (Lich/Hessen: Verlag
Edition AV, 2010), 117. - Gustav Landauer, “Anarchic Thoughts on Anarchism,” in
Revolution and other Writings, ed. Gabriel Kuhn (Oakland: PM
Press, 2010), 91.