There is no "state" on the one hand, and people who live in… - Gustav Landauer

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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.

Gustav Landauer

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Gustav Landauer (7 April 1870 – 2 May 1919) was one of the leading theorists of anarchism in Germany at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.

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