Essays · Character
Michael Bakunin
The revolutionary conscience Malatesta measures himself against — invoked to reject the comrade who would sacrifice three-fourths of humanity for an abstraction called Freedom.
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First appearance: anarchy
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Mentioned in the context of the Bakunists in the old International, representing the anarchist faction in the conflict with Marxists.
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Bakunin hovers over these essays as both ancestor and caution: the fiery nineteenth-century revolutionary whose spirit Malatesta honors while insisting on a harder, more humane calculus. Against the logic that would let…
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- Breaking point
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- Closing
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