Mikhail Bakunin

Bakunin on Anarchy: Selected works by the activist-founder of world anarchism

A selection of Mikhail Bakunin's writings compiled by Sam Dolgoff and published by Vintage Books in 1971.

Demanding the impossible?: Human nature and politics in nineteenth-century social anarchism

David Morland's text examining the relationship between anarchism's notion of human nature and its vision of a future stateless society by way of three 19th-century social anarchists: Proudhon, Bakunin and Kropotkin.

God and the state - Mikhail Bakunin - audiobook

Mikhail Bakunin by Rae Maxwell

Bakunin’s most famous work, published in various lengths, this version is the most complete form of the work published hitherto, recorded as an audiobook by LibriVox.

Letter to Albert Richard - Mikhail Bakunin

A letter to Albert Richard from Mikhail Bakunin.

Bakunin and the United States - Paul Avrich

Biographic essay on Bakunin by anarchist historian Paul Avrich

Anarchism and Anti-Intellectualism in Russia - Paul Avrich

Excellent article by historian Paul Avrich on anti-Intellectual tendencies in Russian anarchism

The Legacy of Bakunin - Paul Avrich

Essay by anarchist historian Paul Avrich on Bakunin.

The Bakunin-Marx split in the 1st International - Franz Mehring

Bakunin & Marx

Excerpts from Mehring's Karl Marx - The Story of His Life (1918) on the conflict between Bakunin and Marx in the 1st International (International Working Men's Association). Mehring gives a very evenhanded account of the famous split that was to initially define the historical relationship between the statist and anti-statist wings of the working class movement. Unlike most other Marxists up to the present - and whilst maintaining his political disagreements with Bakunin's anarchism and criticising his faults and weaknesses - Mehring without bias also points out the slanders, intrigues and trickeries of Marx and his supporters in this episode.