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Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

“The passion for destruction is a creative passion,” wrote the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin in 1842. Since then, the popular image of anarchism has been one of violence and terror. But this picture is wildly misleading, and the media has done more to obscure anarchism than to explain it. Focusing on the street fighting and confrontations with police, mainstream commentators are unable to understand what anarchism is or why a philosophy with roots in the nineteenth century has resurfaced with such power at the dawn of the new millennium. To understand anarchism, it is necessary to go beyond the caricature presented by the media. In this new biography of Mikhail Bakunin, Mark Leier traces the life and ideas of anarchism’s first major thinker, and in the process revealing the origins of the movement.

There was little in Bakunin’s background to suggest that he would grow up to be anything other than a loyal subject of the Russian Empire. Instead, he became one the most notorious radicals of the nineteenth century, devoting his life to the des

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Mikhail Bakunin

Russian revolutionary anarchist and philosopher (1814–1876)

"Bakunin" redirects here. For others with this surname, see Bakunin (surname). For the 1937 book by E. H. Carr, see Bakunin (biography). For the Soviet politician, see Nikolai Bukharin.

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Alexandrovich and the family name is Bakunin.

Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin^[a] (bə-KOO-nin;^[4] 30 May [O.S. 18 May] 1814 – 1 July 1876) was a Russian revolutionary anarchist. He is among the most influential figures of anarchism and a major figure in the revolutionary socialist, social anarchist,^[5] and collectivist anarchist traditions. Bakunin's prestige as a revolutionary also made him one of the most famous ideologues in Europe, gaining substantial influence among radicals throughout Russia and Europe.

Bakunin grew up in Pryamukhino, a family estate in Tver Governorate. From 1840, he studied in Moscow, then in Berlin hoping to enter academia. Later in Paris, he met Karl Marx and

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May 1814 - July 1, 1876

"The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such."

Biography

[Ba:ku:ni:n (a as in father) (k as in kit) (u as in suit) (i as in feet)]

Born in May 1814 (the exact date is disputed), Bakunin became involved in politics in his late teens- his first known political effort was made at the age of 22 (1836), when he translated Hegel's "Gymnasial Lectures" into Russian- marking the first time Hegel had been translated into Russian.

In 1842 Bakunin wrote "The Reaction in Germany"- an article whose popularity spread throughout youth and underground groups. In his essay Bakunin debated Hegel's emphasis on the positive in the dialectical process, asserting instead that the negative is the creative driving force of dialectics. The ending line of this essay is one of his most quoted phrases, "The desire for destruction is, at the same time, a creative desire too."