Mikhail Bakunin Quotes
Intellectual slavery ... will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.
Mikhail Bakunin, 1814-1876, Russian Anarchist, Federalism, Socialism, and Anti-Theologism, 1868
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As hard as it is for us to imagine today, while her husband was President of the United States, the First Lady wrote a nationally syndicated newspaper column every single day with politics frequently the subject. While she usually agreed with the President, there were occasions where they seemed to not see things exactly the same. She tended to be more liberal than he. However, there were those who believed that when she criticized politicians, it was with FDR’s knowledge and blessing and she sometimes did his “dirty work.” Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the most influential people in the country—certainly more-so than any First Lady before and since.
The House Un-American Activities Committee had been harassing Dr. Edward Condon, the Director of the National Bureau of Standards for advocating scientific working relationships with some Russian scientists.
Hopkins was complaining about the fact that England could tax the colonies and thereby take their property without their consent made the American colonists in the “miserable condition of slaves.” Essentially the fundamental complaint of the Americans was this and in a decade it would erupt as the American Revolution. At the same time, Hopkins was a slave owner and yet saw nothing wrong with that.
This was written from Washington DC where slavery was legal at the time.
The Birth of a Nation was screened at the Woodrow Wilson White House as Wilson was the most racist president since Andrew Johnson. The editorial was persuasive to Boston liberals who were not prepared to impose censorship even to prevent racist propaganda from having an audience.
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.
