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Library Update — July 1, 2017
Today is the anniversary of the death of Bakunin in 1876. It seems like as good an occasion as any to update folks on the progress of the library (particularly as I had really hoped […]
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Max Nettlau, “New Bakunin Documents” (1924)
NEW BAKUNIN DOCUMENTS. Materials for the Biography of M. Bakunin. From Documents in tho Archives of the late Third Department [of State Police] and the Ministry of the Navy. Edited and Annotated by Viatcheslav Polonski. […]
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John Tamlyn, “Marx and Bakunin” (1920)
MARX AND BAKUNIN. [The following letter was sent to the Call, but the Editor declined to publish it, on the ground that it “might possibly lead to confusion in the minds of people who are […]
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Mikhail Bakunin, “The Reveille of the Peoples” (1870)
The Germans have just rendered an immense service to the French people. They have destroyed its army. The French army! That terrible instrument of imperial despotism, that unique reason for the existence of the Napoleons! […]
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Mikhail Bakunin, from “Philosophical Considerations on the Divine Phantom, the Real World and Man” (1870)
[Here is a selection from the beginning of the “Appendix” to The Knouto-Germanic Empire and the Social Revolution, which Bakunin wrote in November-December, 1870.] Philosophical Considerations on the Divine Phantom, the Real World and Man […]
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Mikhail Bakunin, “Letter to Arnold Ruge” (May 1843)
[Translated from the French text published in La vie ouvrière, No. 112, May 20, 1914, ] B. to R. St. Peter’s Island, Lake Biel, May 1843. Our friend Marx has passed on your letter from […]
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Letter to Albert Richard (February 7, 1870)
February 7, 1870 My friend and brother – Forgive me my long silence, and you will forgive me for it I am sure when you know the cause of it. – In response to the […]
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Program of the International Society of the Revolution (1868)
Program of the International Society of the Revolution First part. Theoretical principles. I. Negation of God and of the principle of authority, both human and divine, as well as every tutelage exercised by men over […]
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Program of the Russian Socialist Democracy [Narodnoe Delo] (1868)
[From the broadside: Program of the Russian Socialist Democracy. Drawn from the Newspaper “La Cause du peuple”, published in French, Geneva, 1868.] OUR PROGRAM We want the emancipation of the people, their intellectual, economic, social […]
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Rereading Bakunin
The work that delayed the new edition of “God and the State” has had a very large silver lining. Not only has that book turned into something I’m finding really exciting to work on, but […]