Quotes About Bakunin

1872 the anarchist leader Mikhail Bakunin warned Karl Marx that Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced. After what has happened in Russia, can you honestly say Bakunin was wrong?

Or Bakunin: "There are times when creation can be achieved only through destruction. The urge to destroy is then a creative urge.")

I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because Russians give back a wonderful response.

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.

Truth and justice, on the contrary, are the least universal, the youngest features in the development of human society.

You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world's intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there's cataclysm.

En la misma época, en una carta a Nechaiev, Bakunin se indignaba por tan descabellada idea: «Nuestro pueblo no es una hoja blanca sobre la que cualquier sociedad secreta puede escribir lo que le parezca bien, como por ejemplo su programa comunista»

You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world's intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there's cataclysm.

You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world's intrusion into this one.

Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.

Bakunin's brilliant predictions of the consequences of Marx's statism have not become the foundation for a developing anti-statist praxis, but rather a hollow chorus of "we told you so.

Hoffendahl is, in the effect he has upon others, not unlike what is told of Bakunin himself in his greatest days, when he could enthrall with his passion even those who could not understand the language he spoke in. But it is possible that James also had the famous Johann Most in mind. Most figured in the London press in 1881 when he was tried because his newspaper, Freiheit, exulted in the assassination of the Czar.

Bakunin: 'Even if God existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.