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“Anarchism is "stateless socialism."”

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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. more

“We exhort the compromisers to open their hearts to truth, to free themselves of their wretched and blind circumspection, of their intellectual arrogance, and of the servile fear which dries up their souls and paralyzes their movements. Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternal source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too!”

Heart Soul Spirit Passion Creative Movement Source Eternal Intellectual Destruction Blind Arrogance Wretched Unfathomable Circumspection Creative Passion Intellectual Arrogance

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, North America was able within less than a century to equal, and even surpass, the civilization of Europe.”

Inspiration Able America Spirit Liberty Century Civilization Equal Europe Productivity Marvelous Magician North America

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“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

“We wish, in a word, equality - equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish sincerely and energetically.”

Needs Facts Wish Liberty Conditions Faculty Sincerely

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“Revolution requires extensive and widespread destruction, a fecund and renovating destruction, since in this way and only this way are new worlds born”

World Way Born Revolution Destruction New World

Book:Bakunin on anarchism

Source: Bakunin on anarchism

“The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they intend to alter it, what they expect to gain in return, where they will raise the capital to accomplish their vision. Many of their stories turn out to be flawed or mistaken, of course, but the capacity to envision a set of future events and then act to fulfill them is a central source of capitalism's strength and its dominance of society.”

Source: The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy

“He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.”

Eye Views Worst His Eyes

Book:The Playground of Europe

Source: The Playground of Europe

“Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.”

Kind Delirium Hawthorne Delirium Tremens

Book:Hours in a Library

Source: Hours in a Library

“Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh?”

Men Problem Laughing Mystery Honest Duty Angel Ultimate Deny Foolish Ignorant Certainty Honest Man Pulpit

Book:An Agnostic's Apology, and Other Essays

Source: An Agnostic's Apology, and Other Essays

“Philistine - a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species.”

May Names Interest Higher Intellectual Species Defined Indifference Philistines

Book:Sir Thomas Browne. Jonathan Edwards. Horace Walpole. Dr. Johnson's writings. Crabbe. William Hazlitt. Disraeli's novels. Massinger

Source: Sir Thomas Browne. Jonathan Edwards. Horace Walpole. Dr. Johnson's writings. Crabbe. William Hazlitt. Disraeli's novels. Massinger

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