Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“Representative democracy, however, harmonizes marvelously with the capitalist economic system. This new statist system, basing itself on the alleged sovereignty of the so-called will of the people, as supposedly expressed by their alleged representatives in mock popular assemblies, incorporates the… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we are enemies… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the bootmaker;… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I am not myself free or human until or unless I recognize the freedom and humanity of all my fellowmen... I am truly free… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
