"There is no "state" on the one hand, and people who live in it on the other. The "state" much rather belongs to what people do and understand. People do not live in the state. The state lives in the people."
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"Tucker's Revelation," in Revolution and Other Writings: A Political Reader, p. 249
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Gustav Landauer
1870 – 1919
deutscher Anarchist, Schriftsteller und Übersetzer
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