Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin, born on this day in 1814, was a Russian revolutionary, foundational thinker of collectivist anarchism, and contemporary political rival of Karl Marx in the First International.

Bakunin became involved in politics in his late teens- his first known political effort was made at the age of 22 (1836), when he translated Hegel's "Gymnasial Lectures" into Russian- marking the first time Hegel had been translated into Russian.

In 1842 Bakunin wrote "The Reaction in Germany"- an article whose popularity spread throughout youth and underground groups. In his essay Bakunin debated Hegel's emphasis on the positive in the dialectical process, asserting instead that the negative is the creative driving force of dialectics. The ending line of this essay is one of his most quoted phrases, "The desire for destruction is, at the same time, a creative desire too."

Bakunin first met Marx and Proudhon in Paris, 1844. Shortly thereafter; Marx, Feuerbach, Ruge and Bakunin founded the newspaper Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher.

In 1849, after years of revolutionary efforts throughout Europe, Bakunin was arrested. Incarcerated in Chemnitz, Bakunin was sentenced to death in Saxony, but had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment. By request of the Austrian government Bakunin was extradited to Austria, sentenced to death again, and again his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment- in Austria his stay was accompanied with severe beatings and torture. In 1850, Bakunin was extradited to Russia (his first prison stay in Russia was in the infamous dungeons of the Fortress Peter and Paul), where Bakunin spent his next 11 years in various prisons and finally, Siberian exile. In June 1861 Bakunin escaped Siberia, and travelled through Japan and North America to London.

After imprisonment, Bakunin wrote the large majority of his political works, and further consolidated and refined his anarchistic theory. The driving force throughout Bakunin's life, unquestionably stronger after his escape from prison, was towards emancipating the human spirit- to achieve equality and liberty for all people.

Bakunin also espoused anti-Semitic views in some of his work, but Anarchist thinkers today, however, do not generally consider these views central to his political thought.

Bakunin is considered to be among the most influential figures of anarchism and a major founder within the social anarchist tradition. Bakunin's prestige as an activist also made him one of the most famous ideologues in Europe, gaining substantial influence among radicals throughout Russia and Europe.

Bakunin is also notable as a vehement opponent of Marxism, especially of the dictatorship of the proletariat, predicting that Marxist governments would become one-party dictatorships over the proletariat, not by the proletariat. On this matter, he stated "Either one destroys the State or one must accept the vilest and most fearful lie of our century: the red bureaucracy."

His biographer Mark Leier wrote that "Bakunin had a significant influence on later thinkers, ranging from Peter Kropotkin and Errico Malatesta to the Wobblies and Spanish anarchists in the Civil War to Herbert Marcuse, E.P. Thompson, Neil Postman, and A.S. Neill, down to the anarchists gathered these days under the banner of 'anti-globalization.'"

-- Works of Mikhail Bakunin - reading guide :anarchy-a-white:

-- God and the State by Bakunin :bakunin-immortan:

-- Mikhail Bakunin, 1814-1876: Biography, Readings and Quotes :ancom-pat:

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