Mikhail Bakunin
Russian revolutionary anarchist whose God and the State is the classic statement of anarchist anti-authoritarianism. His conflict with Marx over the International split the left and defined the anarchist-Marxist divide. He argued that the state, even a socialist one, is inherently oppressive.
Works
- God and the StateAnarchist critique of state, religion, and authority in human liberation
- Statism and AnarchyPolemical work against Marxist state socialism defending anarchist communism
- The Knouto-Germanic EmpirePolitical history and critique of German and Prussian imperial autocracy
- Revolutionary CatechismRevolutionary instruction manual on beliefs, organization, and violent tactics
- Letters to a FrenchmanCorrespondence on revolution, France, and anarchist political philosophy