Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin was a Russian revolutionary anarchist and political philosopher and one of the most colorful figures of nineteenth-century European radicalism. After participation in the revolutions of 1848 and a long imprisonment in Russia, he escaped from Siberian exile and made his way back to Western Europe, where he engaged in long polemical conflicts with Marx within the First International. His God and the State and Statism and Anarchy articulated a libertarian socialism in which human freedom is impossible without the abolition of both state and church authority.