Mikhail Bakunin Quotes
As far as learning was concerned, Marx was, and still is, incomparably more advanced than I. I knew nothing at that time of political economy, I had not yet rid myself of my metaphysical observations... He called me a sentimental idealist and he was right; I called him a vain man, perfidious and crafty, and I also was right.
Mikhail Bakunin, 1814-1876, Russian Anarchist, Quoted in Brian Morris, Bakunin: The Philosophy of Freedom, 1993
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This quotation is important because so many modern conservatives regard Keynes as a Marxist economist. Those who do, generally have not read neither the one or the other—possibly neither.
Derogatory description of John F. Kennedy.
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Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin was a Russian revolutionary anarchist, socialist and founder of collectivist anarchism. He is considered among the most influential figures of anarchism and a major founder of the revolutionary socialist and social anarchist tradition. 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.
