Ideologies / Anarcho-Collectivist / Mikhail Bakunin
§ The minds · 1814–1876 · Russia · Revolutionary & theorist
Mikhail Bakunin
Liberty without the state
The founder of collectivist anarchism.
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The towering father of collectivist anarchism, whose insistence that political liberty is meaningless without economic equality — and that the state must be abolished, not seized — split the revolutionary left from Marxism forever.
social
Fiercely anti-authoritarian, anti-clerical, emancipatory.
economic
Collective ownership of the means of production, distribution by labour contributed.
governance
Total abolition of the state — his great quarrel with Marx in the First International.
Notable for
- Founded collectivist anarchism
- Split with Marx in the First International
- 'God and the State'
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