Part of the series https://libcom.org/library/works-mikhail-bakunin-reading-guide
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
HTML re-formatting Dana Ward 1999
TO THE MEMORY OF
J. W. (Chummy) FLEMING
WHO, FOR NEARLY SIXTY YEARS
UPHELD THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM
AT THE YARA BANK OPEN AIR FORUM
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
-- K. J. Kenafick
Bump, as I have added an awesome image to these texts
that image is pretty bad ass.
yeah love this image, and the text actually.
Lordy y'all have stirred up the apologists on facebook something fierce with this one.
Always liked this booklet
I never quite understood what Bakunin meant by " materialism" and "determinism" as being separate and distinct from the (small m) marxian view of same
syndicalist
Bakunin's materialism is naturalist (like in natural sciences), marxian historical materialism is anthropocentrist. Bakunin's determinism is also naturalist, broader and social, marxian determinism is economical one.