Mikhail Bakunin
Influential Russian collectivist anarchist, revolutionary and major critic of Karl Marx who was eventually expelled from the International Workingmen's Association.
The Commune, the Church and the State
From: Bakunin's Writings, Guy A. Aldred Modern Publishers, Indore Kraus Reprint co. New York 1947
THE COMMUNE, THE CHURCH & THE STATE.
I am a passionate seeker for truth and just as strong an opponent of the corrupting lies, through which the party of order -- this privileged, official, and interested representative of all religions, philosophical political, legal economical, and social outrage in the past and present -- has tried to keep the world in ignorance. I love freedom with all my heart. It is the only condition under which the intelligence, the manliness, and happiness of the people, can develop and expand. By freedom, however, I naturally understand not its mere form, forced down as from above, measured and controlled by the state, this eternal lie which in reality, is nothing but the privilege of the few founded upon the slavery of all.
The Class War
From: Bakunin's Writings, Guy A. Aldred Modern Publishers, Indore Kraus
Reprint co. New York 1947
THE CLASS WAR
(1870)
Except Proudhoun and M. Louis Blanc almost all the historians of the revolution of l848 and of the coup d'etat of December, 1851, as well as the greatest writers of bourgeois radicalism, the Victor Hugos, the Quinets, etc. have commented at great length on the crime and the criminals of December; but they have never deigned to touch upon the crime and the criminals of June. And yet it is so evident that December was nothing but the fatal consequence of June and its repetition on a large scale.
The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State - Mikhail Bakunin
The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State
by Mikhail Bakunin 1814-1876
First Published in 1871 Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY
Marxism, Freedom and the State
This collection of extracts from the works of Mikhail Bakunin are taken from his writings touching on his controversy with Marx over the nature of the state and its role in the liberation of the international working class.
Written between 1867 and 1872, many of Bakunin's predictions about the outcome of following the authoritarian communist road have been proven valid by the actions of Leninist tyrants across the world.
Marxism, Freedom and the State
Translated and Edited with a Foreword and Biographical Sketch by K. J. Kenafick
Scanned in and put in HTML format by Greg Alt 1996
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