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Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876)
The Russian anti-authoritarian revolutionary, Mikhail Bakunin was an important founding figure in collectivist anarchism and an uncompromising opponent of capitalism, private property, religion and the state.
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He famously described himself as a ‘fanatical lover of liberty’.
A minor Russian noble by birth, Bakunin was subsequently radicalised and combined revolutionary activism with the writing of books and articles that called for a collectivist anarchist society.
His political ideas were influential, notably in shaping the anarchist experiments in the Ukraine (1917) and Spain (1936-39). Bakunin’s major works include God and the State (1871) and Statism and Anarchy (1873).
For Bakunin, the state is a ‘vast slaughterhouse’ or ‘enormous cemetery’ - an illegitimate, artificial and imposed form of authority that crushes personal freedom.
In his view, the state leads to economic centralisation, the concentration of political power, and social control