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Mikhail Bakunin

Russian revolutionary anarchist and philosopher (1814–1876)

  • Fame78.2
  • Momentum25.0
  • Activists rank#9
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  • Fame78.2
  • Momentum25.0
  • Activists rank#9
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Lived 1814–1876, aged 62
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    Aged 62
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Updated 2026-06-21

The Russian revolutionary who spent decades dodging empires, prison cells, and Karl Marx — Bakunin built the intellectual foundation for anarchism as a mass movement, then lost the fight for its soul at a conference he couldn't reach.

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Bakunin grew up on a Tver estate, studied in Moscow and Berlin with academic ambitions, then met Marx and Proudhon in Paris and turned irreversibly radical. He was expelled from France, fought in the 1848 Prague and 1849 Dresden uprisings, was sentenced to death, extradited multiple times, and exiled to Siberia in 1857 before escaping via Japan to London. In 1868 he joined the International Workingmen's Association and led its anarchist wing to rapid growth, but the 1872 Hague Congress became a showdown with Marx over whether socialism required state power or its abolition — Bakunin couldn't r…

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Sourced, dated quotes from Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin
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To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it.
— "On the International Workingmen's Association and Karl Marx" (1872)
Mikhail Bakunin
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If there is a devil in human history, that devil is the principle of command.
— "On the Program of the Alliance" (1871), in Bakunin on Anarchy (1971), translated and edited by Sam Dolgoff
Mikhail Bakunin
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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
— "The Red Association" (1870)
Mikhail Bakunin
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What all other men are is of the greatest importance to me.
— Solidarity in Liberty: The Workers' Path to Freedom (1867)
Mikhail Bakunin
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I eagerly await tomorrow's mail to have news of Russia and Poland. For now, I have to content myself with a few vague rumors which float around.
— Letter to Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen and Ogareff from San Francisco (3 October 1861); published in Correspondance de Michel Bakounine
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