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:
Here is a list of Trans rights organizations you can support :cat-trans:
Buy coffee and learn more about the Zapatistas in Chiapas here :EZLN:
Resources for Palestine: https://popularresistance.org/all-out-for-palestine/ https://twitter.com/RiverToSea48/status/1392829346583388160
Here are some resourses on Prison Abolition :brick-police:
Foundations of Leninism :USSR:
:lenin-shining: :unity: :kropotkin-shining:
Anarchism and Other Essays :ancom:
Remember, sort by new you :LIB:
Yesterday’s megathread :sad-boi:
Follow the Hexbear twitter account :comrade-birdie:
THEORY; it’s good for what ails you (all kinds of tendencies inside!) :RIchard-D-Wolff:
COMMUNITY CALENDAR - AN EXPERIMENT IN PROMOTING USER ORGANIZING EFFORTS :af:
Come listen to music with your fellow Hexbears in Cy.tube :og-hex-bear:
Join the fresh and beautiful batch of new comms:
!genzedong@hexbear.net :xi-gun:
!emoji@hexbear.net :meow-tankie: :meow-anarchist:
!libre@hexbear.net :libretion:
!shrekland@hexbear.net :shrek-progress:
For Next Friday we will watch The Double (2013) a british dark comedy, on cytube, it will require a Plug in like Greasemonkey or Tampermonkey
here is a trailer for the movie
Wmill's Moscow Problems :dio
Previous smarties, answer and new question.
The big brain duo who know algebra are [@ElGosso](/u/ElGosso and @QuillcrestFalconer both of y'all are :arm-L: :galaxy-brain: :arm-R: and I :rat-salute: you both.
Previous answer
Twice as large
New question I found out who took how many
While your back is turned, A thinks of a number n and takes 4n coins (or other items) from a pile. B takes 7n and C takes 13n. C gives A and B as many coins as each already has. B does the same to A and C, and A does the same to B and C.
Ask one of them how many coins they have. Divide by 2 and announce how many A took. Divide how many A took by 4, multiply by 7, and announce how many B took. Divide how many B took by 7, multiply by 13, and announce how many C took.
Explain.
Good luck and have fun with this :soviet-heart: dm @Wmill and you can try as many times as you like.
I am not Vice President Dan Quayle please do not yell at me for his words :ohnoes:
I can't believe this dude wasn't president at one point
Cheney in 1994 on why the US didn't invade Iraq at the end of the Gulf War video link if you want:
Because if we’d gone to Baghdad we would have been all alone. There wouldn’t have been anybody else with us. There would have been a U.S. occupation of Iraq. None of the Arab forces that were willing to fight with us in Kuwait were willing to invade Iraq. Once you got to Iraq and took it over, took down Saddam Hussein’s government, then what are you going to put in its place? That’s a very volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central government of Iraq, you could very easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off: part of it, the Syrians would like to have to the west, part of it — eastern Iraq — the Iranians would like to claim, they fought over it for eight years. In the north you’ve got the Kurds, and if the Kurds spin loose and join with the Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of Turkey. It’s a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq. The other thing was casualties. Everyone was impressed with the fact we were able to do our job with as few casualties as we had. But for the 146 Americans killed in action, and for their families — it wasn’t a cheap war. And the question for the president, in terms of whether or not we went on to Baghdad, took additional casualties in an effort to get Saddam Hussein, was how many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth? Our judgment was, not very many, and I think we got it right.
Upvote if you love woman :bottom-speak:
Or if you know how many yards of linen equals one coat :marx:Noo, they are mutually exclusive, you can't think about economics with girls on the brain.
Thesis: I love women
Antithesis: 20 yards of Linen makes 1 Coat
Synthesis: Thinking about women is distracting cause I dont need 20 yards to make a coat. This is incredibly wasteful.
There's something just so fucking funny about how the thing that actually made Trump concede that he lost was getting banned on Twitter. A truer poster we shall never see
You can take my presidency, you can take my life, but you can never take me off Twitter!
Sir, they just banned you on twitter.
...fuck. :trump-anguish:
holy shit life goals i finally did it I FOUND GROVERHAUS ON GOOGLE MAPS
and oh my god groversuburb is absolutely incredible, just the most soulless hell of identical awful mcmansions stretching endlessly in a fucking swamp like an affront to god, like how do you make a place thats literally called the Great Dismal Swamp even fucking worse
like groverhaus was really hard to find because it doesnt even stand out in this sea of awfulness, no wonder he didnt have any planning permission problems, every single fucking house is a groverhaus
haha and i guess theres no stormwater drains because theyre in a swamp, so they all have acres of perfectly manicured front lawns with just a giant swamp ditch running through the middle
gonna post an album tomorrow i think
too good not to post, ive been spending most of the day gathering pictures instead of working
Yeah, like, having the option of doing stuff with people will be nice but now more than ever I definitely don't want to feel obligated to make plans, and I don't want to explain how I don't trust that things are "over" enough for a return to normal
I know I'm preaching to the choir, but literally every weekend should be 3 days minimum.
Just got the new lenses for my glasses, the difference is as clear as night and day. 👁️
It feels pretty nice being able to read stuff further than five meters away :comfy-cool:
Can you believe these youngsters nowadays, back in my day the only sunday boyfriend we had was Jesus.