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“Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists and politicians - all of them, down to the meanest grocer, repeat in chorus the words of Voltaire, that if there were no God it would be necessary to invent Him.”

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Mikhail Bakunin

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. more

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