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Louisiana State University Press, 1990), 55. - Ellis Sandoz, The Voegelinian Revolution (Baton Rouge: Louisiana
State University Press, 1981), 22. - Eric Voegelin, Race and State (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press, 1977 ), The History of the Race Idea (Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 1998). - Clifford F. Porter, “Eric Voegelin on Nazi Political Extremism,”
Journal of the History of Ideas 63 (2002): 151, 156. - John J. Ranieri, Eric Voegelin and the Good Society (Columbia:
University of Missouri Press, 1995), 204. - Gustav Landauer, “Twenty Five Years Later: On the Jubilee of
Wilhelm II,” in Revolution and Other Writings: A Political Reader,
ed. Gabriel Kuhn (Oakland: PM Press, 2010), 64. - Gustav Landauer, “Weak Statesmen, weaker people”, in
Revolution and Other Writings: A Political Reader, ed. Gabriel Kuhn
(Oakland: PM Press, 2010), 214. - Landauer’s view of power was influenced by his reading and trans-
lation of French, 16th century philosopher Étienne de La Boétie’s
Discours sur la Servitude Volontaire. Boétie argued that a tyrant’s op-
pression of the people required the people’s voluntary subservience.
All it needed to overcome servitude was the individual’s will to be
free. Instead of overthrowing the tyrant the task was to stop obeying
it. “Revolution” in Revolution and Other Writings (Oakland: PM
Press, 2010), 155f. - Gustav Landauer, “Die Botschaft der Titanic”, in Der werdende
Mensch, Aufsätze über Leben und Schrifttum, ed. Martin Buber
(Weimar: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1921), translated in Eugene
Lunn, Prophet of Community (University of California Press,
1973), 158. - Gustav Landauer, “Tucker’s Revelation”, in Revolution and other
Writings: A Political Reader, ed. Gabriel Kuhn (Oakland: Pm Press,
2010), 249. - The reason for this lack of meaning will be discussed in the third
section.