Bakunin


God and the State
A Ilusão do Sufrágio Universal (Portuguese Edition)
The Mass Strike
Law and Marxism
Italian Anarchism, 1864-1892
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History of the First I...
 
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G.M. Stekloff
The Emancipation of Labor: A History of the First International (Contributions in Labor Studies)
The Anarchists, 2nd Edition
The Bakuninists at Work: Review of the Uprising in Spain in the Summer of 1873
Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism
The Russian Anarchists
First Socialist Schism: Bakunin vs. Marx in the International Working Men's Association
Marxism, Freedom and the State
Workers Unite!: The International 150 Years Later
We Do Not Fear Anarchy?We Invoke It: The First International and the Origins of the Anarchist Movement
Paul Avrich
Bakunin, on the other hand, considered himself a revolutionist of the deed, "not a philosopher and not an inventor of systems, like Marx." He adamantly refused to recognize the existence of any "a priori ideas or preordained, preconceived laws." Bakunin rejected the view that social change depended on the gradual maturation of "objective" historical conditions. On the contrary, he believed that men shaped their own destinies, that their lives could not be squeezed into a Procrustean bed of abstr ...more
Paul Avrich, The Russian Anarchists

Paul Avrich
While entrusting the intellectuals with a critical role in the forthcoming revolution, Bakunin at the same time cautioned them against attempting to seize political power on their own, in the manner of the Jacobins or their eager disciple Auguste Blanqui. On this point Bakunin was most emphatic. The very idea that a tiny band of conspirators could execute a coup d'état for the benefit of the people was, in his derisive words, a "heresy against common sense and historical experience." These stric ...more
Paul Avrich, The Russian Anarchists

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