Video Productions - alternative news producers of environmental and social justice issues. Noam Chomsky on Anarchism, Marxism & Hope for the Future. Proudhon's Collected Works. The State - Proudhon Library. Benjamin R. Tucker translation Its Nature, Object, and Destiny. By P. J. PROUDHON. Translated from the Voix du Peuple of December 3, 1849, by Benj.
The Revolution of February raised two leading questions: one economic, the question of labor and property; the other political, the question of government or the State. On the first of these questions the socialistic democracy is substantially in accord. By these two great reforms social economy is reconstructed from top to bottom, commercial and industrial relations are inverted, and the profits, now assured to the capitalist, return to the laborer. On this point the revolutionary course is laid out; the meaning of the movement is known. It is far from being the same with the political problem,—that is, with the disposal to be made in the future, of government and the State. We reply in the negative. Louis Blanc and Pierre Leroux affirm the contrary. Let us proceed at once with the analysis:— I. “What is the State?” And he replies:— In short: II.
Mikhail Bakunin Reference Archive. Biography Biography, by Brian BagginsThe Philosophical Roots of the Marx-Bakunin Conflict, by Ann Robertson The material below come from a variety of sources. Bakunin's writings include not only letters, books and newspaper articles, but unpublished manuscripts and records of speeches which are difficult to date and need editing. Selections of his writings usually include excerpts from larger manuscripts and articles made up of selections from a variety of sources. Consequently, a certain amount of repitition is unavoidable. Works: Collections: Writings of Mikhail BakuninBakunin on Anarchy Links: Bakunin Archive (Anarchist Archives)
Federalism, Socialism, Anti-Theologism by Michael Bakunin. Mikhail Bakunin Reference Archive Speech Delivered: September 1867;Source: The Memory Hole; “Federalism, Socialism, Anti-Theologism” was presented as a “Reasoned Proposal to the Central Committee of the League for Peace and Freedom”, by Bakunin at the first congress held in Geneva. The text was either lost or destroyed and Bakunin wrote this work in the form of a speech, never finished, like most of his works. It was divided into three parts. The first and second parts, which follow, deal with federalism and socialism, respectively; the third part, on “anti-theologism,” is omitted here, except for the diatribe against Rousseau's theory of the state.
Bakunin analyzes Rousseau's doctrine of the social contract, makes distinctions between state and society, and discusses the relationship between the individual and the community, and the nature of man in general. Federalism This is a most regrettable gap which we should hasten to fill. Absolute, yes – but are they the only conditions? Kropotkin Reference Archive. Communism and Anarchy. MIA: Reference Archives: Peter Kropotkin Many Anarchists and thinkers in general, whilst recognising the immense advantages which Communism may offer to society, yet consider this form of social organisation a danger to the liberty and free development of the individual. This danger is also recognised by many Communists, and, taken as a whole, the question is merged in that other vast problem which our century has laid bare to its fullest extent: the relation of the individual to society.
The importance of this question need hardly be insisted upon. The problem became obscured in various ways. When speaking of Communism, most people think of the more or less Christian and monastic and always authoritarian Communism advocated in the first half of this century and practised in certain communities. These communities took the family as a model and tried to constitute "the great Communist family" to "reform man". [Production and consumption in common] All this is certainly not yet Communism.