The Anarchist, Mikhail Bakunin: Part Two

09/15/23 • 160 min

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This is the tale of how Karl Marx and Mikhail Bakunin fought it out in what would be the most nasty intellectual battle of the 1800's - and how would the political left have looked like if the anarchists had won?
"I hate Communism because it is the negation of liberty and because humanity is for me unthinkable without liberty. I am not a Communist, because Communism concentrates and swallows up in itself for the benefit of the State all the forces of society, because it inevitably leads to the concentration of property in the hands of the State, whereas I want the abolition of the State" - M. Bakunin.

By and with Francis Lundh

By and with Francis Lundh

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The Anarchist, Mikhail Bakunin: Part One

Welcome to the the revolutionary movement of the 1800's, a time where people were fighting on the barricades and had radical ideas about transforming society. We will, through the eyes of the revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin explore the year of revolutions in 1848 and the various forms of socialism that will emerge, culminating with the power struggle with Karl Marx. Bakunin will be seen as one of the forerunners of liberal socialism, anarchism, collectivism and the terms that will be used on the fraction to the political left wanting for decentralized socialistic societal structurs without an organized state. Bakunin was a controversial character that was mythologized in his time that came very close to completely changing the course of history, this is part one of the now largely forgotten revolutionary.

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