Gustav Landauer and Prefigurative Politics
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anarchism, Gustav Landauer, prefigurative politics, social movementsAbstract
Gustav Landauer assumed that the state has its source in social relations. Consequently, the realization of the anarchist ideal would be possible through the creation of new and alternative social institutions, as well as social relations at the grassroots level, along with care for the coherence of means and ends. This indicates some similarities with prefigurative politics, which leads to article’s thesis, that the strategy proposed by the German thinker was based on the assumptions characterizing the conception of prefigurative politics. For this reason, the purpose of this article is to analyze and show some similarities between these two approaches.
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