Heaven is within us, and it is within ourselves that we must live—that two souls can meet is happiness; that they may not meet is not yet misfortune.
The heaven that we have within us is eternal.
Bakunin Library
The Bears of Berne and the Bear of Saint-Petersburg (1870)
THE BEARS OF BERNE AND THE BEAR OF SAINT-PETERSBURG ___________ Patriotic lament for a humiliated and hopeless Switzerland March, 1870 The Russian government has judged our Federal Council well, when it dared to demand the […]
Bakunin Library
The Program of “La Démocratie” (1868)
La Voix de l’Avenir, May 24, 1868, Chaux-de-Fonds Need I say that as far as a foreigner my be allowed to meddle in your affairs, I sympathize with all my heart with your courageous enterprise […]
Anarchist Beginnings
Mikhail Bakunin, “I believe neither in constitutions, nor in laws” (1848)
[Max Nettlau has pointed to this letter as the first evidence of anarchist leanings in Bakunin’s writings.] [Early August, 1848] To Citizen George Herwegh. Paris. [Rue St. Augustins] 40 9 [r. sur Cirque] To George […]