“The Tragedy of the Political Exiles”
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Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin was a Russian revolutionary anarchist and political philosopher. He is among the most influential figures of anarchism and a major figure in the revolutionary socialist, social anarchist, and collectivist anarchist tendencies. Bakunin's prestige as a revolutionary also made him one of the most famous ideologues in Europe, gaining substantial influence among radicals t…
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politics · Russian revolutionary anarchist (1814–1876) · philosopher · writer · politician · anarchist · revolutionary · also Mikhail Bakunin, Michail Alexandrovich Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, Bakunin, A. M. Bakunin, Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin
Born 30 May 1814 · Died 1 July 1876 · Q27645
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1896· 1 entry
“Appeal to my Russian Brothers”
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1876· 15 entries
Died 1876-07-01.
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“Nic bardziej nie zagraża moralności jednostki ludzkiej niż przyzwyczajenie do wydawania rozkazów. Musi ono zdemoralizować nawet najlepszych, najmądrzejszych, najszlachetniejszych, najbardziej bezinteresownych i nieskazitelnych. Jest tak dlatego, że ze sprawowaniem władzy jest nierozerwalnie związana pogarda dla mas ludowych i przesadne wyobrażenie o swoich własnych zasługach.”
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“All exercise of authority perverts, and submission to authority humiliates.”
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“No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.”
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“We wish, in a word, equality — equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish sincerely and energetically.”
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“It is the peculiarity of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the intellect and heart of man. The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.”
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Kwiatkowska had three children with another man while Bakunin was still alive – an Italian disciple of his, who married her after Bakunin's death
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“Variant translation: If there is a devil in history, it is the power principle.”
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Though she remained married to Bakunin until his death in 1876, Kwiatkowska had three children with another man while Bakunin was still alive – an Italian disciple of his, who married her after Bakunin's death.
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“Variant translation: We are convinced that freedom without Socialism is privilege and injustice, and that Socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality.”
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“By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.”
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Bakunin wrote his longer works such as Statism and Anarchy and God and the State, but he continued to directly participate in European worker and peasant movements
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“Freedom is the absolute right of every human being to seek no other sanction for his actions but his own conscience, to determine these actions solely by his own will, and consequently to owe his first responsibility to himself alone.”
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“Everything will pass, and the world will perish, but the Ninth Symphony will remain.”
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“Every state, like every theology, assumes man to be fundamentally bad and wicked.”
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1872· 1 entry
“On the International Workingmen's Association and Karl Marx”
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1871· 1 entry
“On the Program of the Alliance”
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1870· 1 entry
Was involved in an insurrection in Lyon, France
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1869· 2 entries
“The Organization of the International”
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“Recollections on Marx and Engels”
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1868· 1 entry
Bakunin joined the International Workingmen's Association, leading the anarchist faction to rapidly grow in influence
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1867· 1 entry
A more permissive environment for revolutionary literature
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1864· 1 entry
In Italy with the International Brotherhood, Bakunin attempted to unite his international network under secret revolutionary societies
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1863· 2 entries
Bakunin left to join the insurrection in Poland, but he failed to reach it and instead spent time in Switzerland and Italy
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Bakunin joined in an unsuccessful effort to supply armed men for the Polish January Uprising against Russia
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1862· 1 entry
“Watch out that liberty doesn”
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1861· 1 entry
First to Japan, then to San Francisco, sailing to Panama and then to New York and Boston, and arrived in London by the end of the year
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1857· 2 entries
Escaped via Japan to the United States and then to London, where he worked with Alexander Herzen on the journal Kolokol (The Bell)
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Bakunin was permitted to transfer to permanent exile in Siberia
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1847· 1 entry
As Polish emigrants in Paris invited him to commemorate the 1830 Polish uprising with a speech
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1835· 1 entry
And only escaped arrest through his familial influence
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1834· 1 entry
Studied at Mikhailovsky Artillery School (1829–1834).
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1833· 1 entry
Availed himself of the freedom to participate in the city's social life, but was unfulfilled
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1814· 1 entry
Born 1814-05-30.
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