Bakunin: Selected Texts 1868-1875

by Mikhail Bakunin, Anthony Zurbrugg (Editor)

Overview

Mikhail Bakunin was a propagator of Anarchistic Socialism and an active promoter of the International Workers’ Association (IWA). He argued for International workers’ solidarity, change involving rural and industrial workers, and a Libertarian or Anarchist form of Socialism with federated accountable democratic organisations responsible to the grassroots. This book brings together a selection of texts: letters, a lecture, newspaper articles, finished and unfinished works. The selection begins in 1868, the year Bakunin moved to Geneva and became a member of the local section of the IWA. Bakunin discusses the development of politics in and around the IWA. Many of these texts appear here in English for the first time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780850367225
Publisher:	Merlin Press Limited, The
Publication date:	10/01/2016
Edition description:	None
Pages:	310
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Mikhail Bakunin (1814 –1876) was a Russian revolutionary socialist and anarchist. He is widely seen as the most influential figure in the development of Anarchism. His influence extended throughout Europe and Russia. A W Zurbrugg is an editor and publisher at the Merlin Press.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Chronology 28

The Programme of the International Alliance for Socialist Democracy: October 1868 33

Open Letter from the Central Bureau of the International Fraternity: March 1869 35

Letter to James Guillaume: April 1869 38

Articles in L'Égalité: 39

[1] Organisation and the general strike: April 1869 40

[2] Four articles on the politics of the International: August 1869 42

Draft resolution on inheritance 56

On Inheritance Speech at the Basel congress of the IWA: September 1869 57

On Real Democracy: February 1870 60

Prospects for Socialism: September 1870 71

Letters to Nikolai Ogarev & the Red Poster September-October 1870 90

On Discipline: Winter 1870-71 95

On Democracy and Education: May 1871 96

Socialism and the Paris Commune: June 1871 101

On Leaders and Politics: July 1871 113

On the Alliance: August 1871 142

Letter to the Jura comrades: February-March 1872 170

Letter to Celso Ceretti: March 1872 184

Letter to Tomas Gonzalez Morago: May 1872 208

The Programme of the Slav section in Zurich: August 1872 217

Writings against Marx: November-December 1872 221

On Lassalle and Marx: August 1873 242

Letter of resignation from the Jura Federation: October 1873 247

Letter to Élisée Reclus: February 1875 251

Notes 253

People, places, organisations, events 284

Sources 293

Subjects discussed by Bakunin 295

General index 296