Gustav Landauer’s Blueprints for a Revolutionary Transition, 1918–19, and His Difficulties with the Transformation of Souls
Gustav Landauer’s work evoked enthusiastic interest among early Jewish settlers of Mandatory Palestine who probed it for guidelines on how to build a new, just society in conjunction with setting up kibbutzim. The Jewish Yishuv (Jewish settlements in Mandatory Palestine) would have been the type of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Journal of ecumenical studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 100-133 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KBB German language area TK Recent history ZC Politics in general |
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| Summary: | Gustav Landauer’s work evoked enthusiastic interest among early Jewish settlers of Mandatory Palestine who probed it for guidelines on how to build a new, just society in conjunction with setting up kibbutzim. The Jewish Yishuv (Jewish settlements in Mandatory Palestine) would have been the type of society that Landauer envisioned, one not needing to be held together by a state. He had the opportunity to be decisively involved in the attempt to carry out a revolutionary transformation of Bavarian society in its revolution of 1918–19. When this revolutionary experiment was crushed, Landauer was murdered on May 2, 1919, by counter-revolutionary Freikorps soldiers, who had been requested of the national government in Berlin by the Bavarian government that had fled to the city of Bamberg, Bavaria. This essay looks at various blueprints that Landauer devised to channel these revolutionary events into a productive direction in accord with his vision. It seeks to track down his efforts in some detail to get a sense why, after his death, Landauer became such an inspiration for some of the early settlers in what later became the State of Israel and other revolutionaries. |
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| ISSN: | 2162-3937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of ecumenical studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/ecu.2022.0007 |