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Mikhail Bakunin was a 19th-century Russian revolutionary anarchist and philosopher. Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin was a Russian revolutionary anarchist. He is among the most influential figures of anarchism and a major figure in the revolutionary socialist, social anarchist, and collectivist anarchist traditions. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.”
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“People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.-- Circular Letter to My...”
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“The passion for destruction is also a creative passion”
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“The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”
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“A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it woul...”
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“Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.”
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