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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.”

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Mikhail Bakunin
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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