Michael Bakunin : Communist

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Bakunin Press, 1920 - Broj stranica: 24
 

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Stranica 3 - A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals
Stranica 21 - Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains. You have a world to gain.
Stranica 11 - It was just at this time that he elaborated the first foundations of his present system. We saw each other fairly often, for I respected him much for his learning! and his passionate and serious devotion (always mixed, however, with personal vanity) to the cause of the proletariat, and I sought eagerly his conversation, which was always instructive and clever, when it was not inspired by a paltry hate, which, alas! happened only too often. But there was never any frank intimacy between us. Our temperaments...
Stranica 18 - Communism I abhor, because it is the negation of liberty, and without liberty I cannot imagine anything truly human. I abhor it, because it concentrates all the strength of society in the State, and squanders that strength in its service ; because it places all property in the hands of the State, whereas my principle is the abolition of the State itself. I want the organisation of society and the distribution of property to proceed upwards from below, by the free voice of society itself ; not downwards...
Stranica 12 - ... once strikingly evident to them. The vanquished nobles and bureaucrats now began to see their way before them ; the army, more united than ever, flushed with victory in minor insurrections and in foreign warfare, jealous of the great success the French soldiers had just attained — this army had only to be kept in constant petty conflicts with the people, and the decisive moment once at hand, it could with one great blow crush the Revolutionists, and set aside the presumptions of the middle...
Stranica 12 - to return to the country whence " tyranny had banished him, and where he, like all fighting in the sacred cause, the cause of the fraternity of all peoples," would be welcome. The invitation was accepted, and for some months he lived in Paris. Then he returned to Germany in order to start the New Rhenish Gazette in Cologne. And the Rhenish Gazette writers had very lively times. Marx was twice prosecuted, but as the juries would not convict, the Prussian Government...
Stranica 11 - Marx was much more advanced than I was as he remains to-day, not more advanced but incomparably more learned than I am. I knew then nothing of political economy. I had not yet rid myself of metaphysical abstractions, and my Socialism was only instinctive. He, though younger than I, was already an Atheist, an instructed materialist, a well-considered Socialist. It was just at this time (1847) that he elaborated the first foundations of his present system.
Stranica 17 - He impeached modern civilisation as having been " founded from time immemorial on the forced labour of the enormous majority, condemned to lead the lives of brutes and slaves, in order that a small minority might be enabled to live as human creatures. This monstrous inequality," he discovered, rested " Upon the absolute separation between heachvork and hand-labour.
Stranica 12 - ... of struggle. From this defeat of the ouvriers of Paris may be dated the first positive steps and definite plans of the old feudal bureaucratic party in Germany, to get rid even of their momentary allies, the middle classes, and to restore Germany to the state she was in before the events of March. The army again was the decisive power in the State, and the army belonged not to the middle classes but to themselves.
Stranica 18 - ... Pestel) that he was ready to make peace with absolutism provided that the son of the Emperor Nicholas would consent to be " a good and loyal Czar," a democratic Czar ; if he would put himself at the head of a popular assembly in order to constitute a new Russia, and play the part of the saviour of the D Slav people. " Does this Romanoff mean to be the Czar of the peasants, or the Petersburgian emperor of the house of Holstein-Gottorp ? This question will have to be decided soon, and then we shall...

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