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MICHAEL BAKOENIN
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P RINCIPLES, PROPOSITIONS &
D ISCUSSIONS
FOR LAND & FREEDOM
AN INTRODUCTORY WORD TO THE ANARCHIVE
Anarchy is Order!
I must Create a System or be enslav d by
another Man s.
I will not Reason & Compare: my business
is to Create
(William Blake)
During the 19th century, anarchism has develloped as a result
of a social current which aims for freedom and happiness. A
number of factors since World War I have made this
movement, and its ideas, dissapear little by little under the
dust of history.
After the classical anarchism of which the Spanish
Revolution was one of the last representatives a new kind
of resistance was founded in the sixties which claimed to be
based (at least partly) on this anarchism. However this
resistance is often limited to a few (and even then partly
misunderstood) slogans such as Anarchy is order , Property
is theft ,...
Information about anarchism is often hard to come by,
monopolised and intellectual; and therefore visibly
disapearing.The anarchive or anarchist archive Anarchy is
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propositions and discussions of this tradition available
again for anyone it concerns. We believe that these texts are
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These texts thus have to be available for all anarchists an
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anarchism a new impulse, to let the new anarchism outgrow
the slogans. This is what makes this project relevant for us:
we must find our roots to be able to renew ourselves. We
have to learn from the mistakes of our socialist past. History
has shown that a large number of the anarchist ideas remain
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chronology of Bakunin s Life.....................................9
Bakunin on The State.................................................16
Bakunin's idea of revolution & revolutionary
organisation.................................................................18
Anonymous Red & Black Revolution...................18
Bakunin's early life...............................................19
Years in jail...........................................................21
Footnotes...............................................................35
Basic Bakunin..............................................................39
Anarchist Communist Federation.............................39
Preface..................................................................39
Class......................................................................40
State......................................................................43
Bourgeois Democracy..........................................45
Marx......................................................................48
Unions...................................................................50
Revolutionary Organization..................................54
Anarchy.................................................................57
Bakunin's Relevance Today..................................61
FURTHER READING.........................................63
Equal Opportunity in Education...............................65
From Egalite, Geneva, July 31, 1869.......................65
Federalism, Socialism, Anti-Theologism..................73
Founding of the Worker s International................132
From "The Political Philosophy of Bakunin".........132
By G.P. Maximoff..................................................132
1953, The Free Press, NY.......................................132
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God and the State......................................................144
From Michael Bakunin, God and the State,............144
1916,........................................................................144
New York:...............................................................144
Mother Earth Publishing Association.....................144
I...........................................................................144
II..........................................................................160
III.........................................................................193
Integral Education....................................................234
Integral Education I.............................................234
Bakunin on Education II.....................................242
On the social upheaval..............................................250
From: Bakunin's Writings,......................................250
Guy A. Aldred Modern Publishers,.........................250
Indore Kraus Reprint co..........................................250
New York................................................................250
1947.........................................................................250
Politics and the state..................................................254
( 1871 )....................................................................254
From: Bakunin's Writings,......................................254
Guy A. Aldred Modern Publishers,.........................254
Indore Kraus Reprint co..........................................254
New York................................................................254
1947.........................................................................254
Recollections on Marx and Engels...........................257
( 1869 - 71 ).............................................................257
Source: Bakunin on Anarchy, p. 25-6 (by James
Guillaume)..............................................................257
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, UK, © 1971
.................................................................................257
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Online Version: marxists.org 1999.........................257
Transcribed: Brian Basgen.....................................257
HTML Markup: Brian Basgen................................257
Solidarity in liberty...................................................261
- The Workers Path To Freedom -..........................261
(1867)......................................................................261
From: Bakunin's Writings,......................................261
Guy A. Aldred Modern Publishers,........................261
Indore Kraus Reprint co..........................................261
New York................................................................261
1947........................................................................261
Power Corrupts The Best.........................................265
(1867)......................................................................265
Stateless Socialism: Anarchism...............................267
From "The Political Philosophy of Bakunin".........267
by G.P. Maximoff...................................................267
1953,.......................................................................267
The Free Press,........................................................267
NY...........................................................................267
The Capitalist System...............................................280
From "The Political Philosophy of Bakunin".........280
by G.P. Maximoff...................................................280
1953,.......................................................................280
The Free Press,........................................................280
NY...........................................................................280
The class war.............................................................297
(1870)......................................................................297
From: Bakunin's Writings,......................................297
Guy A. Aldred Modern Publishers,........................297
Indore Kraus Reprint co..........................................297
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New York................................................................297
1947.........................................................................297
The commune, the church & the state....................300
From: Bakunin's Writings,......................................300
Guy A. Aldred Modern Publishers,.........................300
Indore Kraus Reprint co..........................................300
New York................................................................300
1947.........................................................................300
The German crisis.....................................................321
(1870)......................................................................321
From: Bakunin's Writings,......................................321
Guy A. Aldred Modern Publishers,.........................321
Indore Kraus Reprint co..........................................321
New York................................................................321
1947.........................................................................321
The international and Karl Marx............................326
The Organization of the International (1869)........337
The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State.......344
First Published in 1871...........................................344
Alfred A. Knopf,.....................................................344
New York,...............................................................344
NY...........................................................................344
The policy of the council...........................................362
(1869)......................................................................362
From: Bakunin's Writings,......................................362
Guy A. Aldred Modern Publishers,.........................362
Indore Kraus Reprint co..........................................362
New York................................................................362
1947.........................................................................362
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The Policy of The International...............................368
I...........................................................................368
II..........................................................................371
The Red Association.................................................374
(1870)......................................................................374
The Two Camps........................................................378
The workers and the sphinx.....................................384
(1867)......................................................................384
From Bakunin (1920). God and the State...............384
ed. G. Aldred...........................................................384
Glasgow and London: Bakunin Press.....................384
What is Authority?...................................................390
Where I stand............................................................ 397
From: Bakunin's Writings,......................................397
Guy A. Aldred Modern Publishers,........................397
Indore Kraus Reprint co..........................................397
New York................................................................397
1947........................................................................397
Unconditional Freedom......................................398
Two Methods......................................................399
Bakunin Bibliography..............................................401
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CHRONOLOGY OF BAKUNIN S LIFE
Michael Aleksandrovich Bakunin born May 18, 1814
(Russian calander), May 30, 1814 (European calander),
in the village of Premukhino in the province of Tvar.
1828 Sent to St. Petersburg to prepare for Artillery
School
1829 entered the Artillery School in St. Petersburg.
1832 commissoned as a junior officer and sent to Misk
and Grodno in Poland.
1835 resigned commission.
1836 moved to Moscow and studied philosophy.
1836 translated Fichte's Lectures on the Vocation of the
Scholar.
1838 March: published Preface to Hegel's Gymnasium
Lectures.
1840 moved to St. Petersburg and in June to Berlin to
study and prepare for a professorship at the University of
Moscow.
1842 moved to Dresden and collaborates with Arnold
Ruge in publishing Deutsche Jahrbücher.
1842 published "Reaction in Germany" in October.
1843 moved to Bern and Zurich, meets Wilhelm
Weitling.
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February 1844 moved to Paris, via Brussels.
February 1844 ordered home by Russian government.
December 1844 stripped of his nobel status and
sentenced in abstensia to hard labor in Siberia.
1844-1847 meets and talks with Proudhon often and
Marx occasionally, and is on friendly terms with George
Sand.
November 29, 1847 at the banquet in Paris
commemorating the Polish insurrection of 1830,
Bakunin delivered a speech denouncing the Russian
government and is subsequently expelled from France.
Russian ambassador, in an attempt to discredit Bakunin,
circulates the false rumor that Bakunin is employed by
the Russian government to pose as a revolutionary.
1847 expelled from France in December and moved to
Brussels where he met Marx again.
February 1848 returned to Paris after February
Revolution.
March 1848 met Marx and Engels in Cologne and split
begins over Marx's denunciation of Bakunin's frined
Herwegh, who had led an ill-fated expedition of German
exiles to Baden in the hope of instigating an uprising.
June 1848 particpated in Slav Congress and insurrection
in Prague.
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