Roads to Freedom · Character
Michel Bakunin
Restless Russian agitator whose bitter feud with Marx split the revolutionary movement and gave anarchism its most combustible voice.
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Also known as Bakunin, Meanwhile Bakunin
First appearance: Bakunin and Anarchism
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Presented as a leading anarchist thinker who criticized state authority and advocated for decentralized freedom.
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Bakunin is Marx's great antagonist, a man expelled from country after country for speeches and conspiracies, dogged by a false rumor that he had been a tsarist agent. His letter from Brussels drips with contempt for…
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- Socialist Thinkers and Critics
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