Михаил Александрович Бакунин цитаты
Михаил Александрович Бакунин
Дата рождения: 18. Май 1814
Дата смерти: 19. Июнь 1876
Другие имена: Michail Alexandrowitsch Bakunin, Mijaíl Bakunin, Michail Aleksandrovič Bakunin, Michail Alexandrovič Bakunin
Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович Баку́нин — русский мыслитель и революционер из рода Бакуниных, один из теоретиков анархизма, народничества. Стоит у истоков социального анархизма.
Цитаты Михаил Александрович Бакунин
„В молодости это был человек не без некоторого блеска, способный озадачивать людей слабых и нервных, смущать не-зрелых и выталкивать их из колеи. Это была натура сухая и черствая, ум пустой и бесплодно возбужденный. Он хватался за многое, но ничем не овладевал, ни к чему не чувствовал призвания, ни в чем не принимал деятельного участия.“
— Михаил Александрович Бакунин
Михаил Никифорович Катков
«Кто наши революционеры?»
О нём
„This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other. They say in a single breath: "God and the liberty of man," "God and the dignity, justice, equality, fraternity, prosperity of men" — regardless of the fatal logic by virtue of which, if God exists, all these things are condemned to non-existence. For, if God is, he is necessarily the eternal, supreme, absolute master, and, if such a master exists, man is a slave; now, if he is a slave, neither justice, nor equality, nor fraternity, nor prosperity are possible for him. In vain, flying in the face of good sense and all the teachings of history, do they represent their God as animated by the tenderest love of human liberty: a master, whoever he may be and however liberal he may desire to show himself, remains none the less always a master. His existence necessarily implies the slavery of all that is beneath him. Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty — by ceasing to exist.“
— Mikhail Bakunin, книга God and the State
God and the State (1871; publ. 1882)
„We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.“
"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
„In order to touch the heart and gain the confidence, the assent, the adhesion, and the co-operation of the illiterate legions of the proletariat — and the vast majority of proletarians unfortunately still belong in this category — it is necessary to begin to speak to those workers not of the general sufferings of the international proletariat as a whole but of their particular, daily, altogether private misfortunes. It is necessary to speak to them of their own trade and the conditions of their work in the specific locality where they live; of the harsh conditions and long hours of their daily work, of the small pay, the meanness of their employer, the high cost of living, and how impossible it is for them properly to support and bring up a family.“
Program and Object of the Secret Revolutionary Organisation of the International Brotherhood (1868)
„All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice — that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity.“
— Mikhail Bakunin, книга God and the State
God and the State (1871; publ. 1882)
