„Wenn Gott wirklich existierte, müsste man ihn beseitigen.“
— Michail Bakunin, buch Gott und der Staat
Gott und der Staat
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Michail Bakunin
Geburtstag: 18. Mai 1814
Todesdatum: 19. Juni 1876
Andere Namen: Michail Alexandrowitsch Bakunin, Mijaíl Bakunin, Michail Aleksandrovič Bakunin, Michail Alexandrovič Bakunin, Mijaíl Alexándróvich Bakunin
Michail Alexandrowitsch Bakunin, russisch Михаил Александрович Бакунин, wiss. Transliteration Michail Aleksandrovič Bakunin war ein russischer Revolutionär und Anarchist. Er gilt als einer der einflussreichsten Denker, Aktivisten und Organisatoren der anarchistischen Bewegung.
Bakunin entstammte einer alten russischen Adelsfamilie. Er war Artillerieoffizier und Mathematiklehrer. Durch seinen Aufenthalt in Westeuropa mit vielen revolutionären Persönlichkeiten bekannt, nahm er 1848 an den Erhebungen in Paris und Prag sowie 1849 an führender Stelle in Dresden teil. Nach der Niederschlagung des Dresdner Maiaufstands wurde Bakunin festgenommen und interniert. Er verbrachte acht Jahre in Gefängnissen und weitere vier Jahre in sibirischer Verbannung, bis ihm die Flucht gelang. Seine darauf folgenden revolutionären Aktivitäten konzentrierte er im Wesentlichen auf das zu seiner Zeit dreigeteilte Polen und das neugegründete Italien.
Bakunin entwickelte die Idee des kollektivistischen Anarchismus. In der Internationalen Arbeiterassoziation war Bakunin die Hauptfigur der Antiautoritären und mit Generalratsmitglied Karl Marx im Konflikt, was zur Spaltung der Internationale führte und gleichzeitig zur Trennung der anarchistischen Bewegung von der kommunistischen Bewegung und der Sozialdemokratie. Wikipedia
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„Die Lust der Zerstörung ist gleichzeitig eine schaffende Lust.“
Über die Reaktion in Deutschland
— Mikhail Bakunin, buch Federalism, Socialism, and Anti-Theologism
"Federalism, Socialism, Anti-Theologism" http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bakunin/works/various/reasons-of-state.htm (Fédéralisme, socialisme et antithéologisme), presented originally as a Reasoned Proposal to the Central Committee of the League for Peace and Freedom, at the League's first congress held in Geneva (September 1867)
"Reasoned Proposal to the Central Committee of the League for Peace and Freedom" also known as "Federalism, Socialism, Anti-Theologism" (September 1867)
Kontext: Unity is the great goal toward which humanity moves irresistibly. But it becomes fatal, destructive of the intelligence, the dignity, the well-being of individuals and peoples whenever it is formed without regard to liberty, either by violent means or under the authority of any theological, metaphysical, political, or even economic idea. That patriotism which tends toward unity without regard to liberty is an evil patriotism, always disastrous to the popular and real interests of the country it claims to exalt and serve. Often, without wishing to be so, it is a friend of reaction – an enemy of the revolution, i. e., the emancipation of nations and men.
„Every state, like every theology, assumes man to be fundamentally bad and wicked.“
As quoted in Michael Bakunin (1937), E.H. Carr, p. 453
As quoted in Michael Bakunin (1937) by E.H. Carr, p. 356<!-- New York: NY, Vintage Books -->
Kontext: 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, the final eradication of the principle of authority and the patronage proper to the State, which under the pretext of moralizing and civilizing men has hitherto only enslaved, persecuted, exploited and corrupted them. I want to see society and collective or social property organized from below upwards, by way of free association, not from above downwards, by means of any kind of authority whatsoever.
As quoted in Karl Marx: A Life, by Francis Wheen, London: UK, Fourth Estate (1999) p. 340.
Program and Object of the Secret Revolutionary Organisation of the International Brotherhood (1868)
— Mikhail Bakunin, buch Gott und der Staat
God and the State (1871; publ. 1882)
"Federalism, Socialism, Anti-Theologism" http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bakunin/works/various/reasons-of-state.htm, presented by Bakunin as a Reasoned Proposal to the Central Committee of the League for Peace and Freedom, at the League's first congress held in Geneva (September 1867).
Variant translation: We are convinced that freedom without Socialism is privilege and injustice, and that Socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality.
As quoted in The Political Philosophy of Bakunin: Scientific Anarchism (1953) edited by Grigoriĭ Petrovich Maksimov, p. 269
Program and Object of the Secret Revolutionary Organisation of the International Brotherhood (1868)
— Mikhail Bakunin, buch Gott und der Staat
God and the State (1871; publ. 1882)
— Mikhail Bakunin, buch Statism and Anarchy
Quelle: Statism and Anarchy (1873)
— Mikhail Bakunin, buch Gott und der Staat
God and the State (1871; publ. 1882)
— Mikhail Bakunin, buch Gott und der Staat
God and the State (1871; publ. 1882)
— Mikhail Bakunin, buch Statism and Anarchy
Quelle: "Statism and Anarchy" (1873)
— Mikhail Bakunin, buch Gott und der Staat
God and the State (1871; publ. 1882)
As quoted in Michael Bakunin (1937) by E.H. Carr, p. 175
