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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

As a supporting figure in Essays, Michael Bakunin is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.

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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