Anarchist thinkers: Mikhail Bakunin (1814-76)

Overview:

• closely associated with Marx until 1872, when they disagreed. Bakunin criticised Marx's insistence that, following revolution, a workers' state should be established
• Bakunin argued that the continuance of a powerful state would wreck the goals of the revolution
• along with Kropotkin, he became the leading exponent of anarcho-communism

His theories:

• he had a belief that individuals are born neither good or bad
• their characters are moulded by their experience of life, so a perfect society would produce perfect people
• for him, a perfect…