True thought and feeling transmit harmony by means of chords, so if you want to know the truth, do not resort to deception. Deceit is vain; it disappears before the all-knowing eye like the wave before the rock!
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Letter from Bakunin to Albert Richard, March 12, 1870
[Parts of this letter have appeared in a variety of places, including James Guillaume’s history of the International, and a comrade was curious to see the rest of the text. Bakunin’s use of the term […]
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Letter to Nikolay Ivanovich Zhukovsky (May 5, 1870)
[Letter to Nikolay Ivanovich Zhukovsky, in Russia] May 5, 1870. Locarno. Casa Pedrazzini. Dear Zhuk, The day after my arrival, I responded briefly to you few words. Now I want to discuss with […]
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The Policy of the International (III & IV) (1869)
The Policy of the International III L’Égalité, August 21, 1869; If the International at first showed itself indulgent toward the subversive and reactionary ideas, whether in politics and religion, that the workers might have when […]