Revolution and mystics in Gustav Landauer
Abstract
The present article wants to investigate the role of mysticism in Gustav Landauer’s
political theory. I will defend the thesis according to which “revolutionary conservation” that
characterizes Landauer’s political proposal has to be framed inside the mystical notion of history,
based on a recovery of the past as a tool for political emancipation. To this end, in the first paragraph
I will analyze the utopian and messianic content of landauerian notion of revolution and, in the
second paragraph, the proposal regarding a new socialist community. Finally, I will conclude
that revolutionary romanticism which entails the author’s political theory, as well as his constant
reference to political and social life during the Middle Age, can be properly understood in the light
of a messianic anarchism, where a sui generis form of spirituality and the recovery of the past play a
leading role for an authentic revolutionary project.
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