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Mikhail Bakunin, born on May 30, 1814, and died on July 1, 1876, was a significant thinker and revolutionary from Russia. His ideas had a profound impact on the later anarcho-syndicalist movement.

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“If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable - and this is why we are the enemies of the State.”

Ifs States Results Enemy Class Slavery Domination Unthinkable

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on earth, and the liberty of men will not be complete, unless it will have completely annihilated the inauspicious fiction of a heavenly master.”

Men Earth Causes Fiction Liberty Moral Atheism Masters Intellectual Slavery Positive Atheism Heavenly Sanctions

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.”

May Political Social Natural Results Intellectual Slavery

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we are enemies of the State.”

States Enemy Slavery Domination Concealed

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.”

Ifs States Turns Slavery Domination

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.”

Liberty Slavery Injustice Privilege Convinced Socialism Brutality

Book:Bakunin on anarchism

Source: Bakunin on anarchism

“Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social laws, not authoritatively imposed but inherent in things, in relations, in situations, the natural development of which is expressed by those laws. We say YES if they are political and juridical laws, imposed upon men by men.”

“They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is: No dictatorship can have any other aim but that of self-perpetuation, and it can beget only slavery in the people tolerating it; freedom can be created only by freedom, that is, by a universal rebellion on the part of the people and free organization of the toiling masses from the bottom up.”

People Self Courses Answers Mass Organization Universal Aim Slavery Bottom Rebellion Anarchy Dictatorship Begets Toiling

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom - voluntary from the juridical point of view but compulsory in the economic sense - broken up by momentarily brief interludes of freedom accompanied by starvation; in other words, it is real slavery.”

Real Whole Term Views Economic Broken Truth Is Slavery Workers Point Of View Whole Life Succession Starvation Compulsory Broken Up

Book:The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

Source: The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

About the Author

Born: May 30, 1814
Died: July 1, 1876
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Quotes: 123

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God and the StateRelated source material

The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich BakuninRelated source material

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