Bakunin's ideas on revolutionary organisation

Wed, 01 May 2002 21:57:09 +0000
Anarchist organisation, Anarchists, Bakunin, History, International, Magazine, Analysis, Andrew N Flood

The Russian revolutionary Micheal Bakunin is often presented as the 'founding father' of anarchism. He was a larger than life figure whose disputes with Marx in the 1st international form an essential role in the clarification of the role of the vanguard and of the state in the revolutionary process. Yet his concrete ideas on anarchist organisation are not so well knowm. Andrew N. Flood takes a closer look at them.