Mikhail Bakunin Quotes
The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.
Bakunin, Mikhail. Michael Bakunin: Selected Writings. Edited by Arthur Lehning, Grove Press, 1974, p. 266.
Jefferson, who was so brilliant and farsighted with respect to so many things from agriculture to government management had one great weakness. He really did not understand and generally disliked, banking, finance, industry, large manufacturing. His famous disagreements with Alexander Hamilton were mostly over these areas in which Hamilton was so effective at creating America with a strong national economy. Between them, America was started off in the right direction in all areas.
Lindbergh, a great aviator, was a major Nazi supporter and Hitler admirer. He not only campaigned against America joining the allies in trying to stop Hitler’s aggression, but also was a major propagandist for the Nazi party-line canards about the Jews controlling the media and the government.
Stamp was a banker and the 2nd richest man in England at the time. Yet he warned about aspects of banking that needed reform and regulation.
See {619285} for another of his quotes about the wealthy.
This quotation is very important because it illustrates in the first of our great national political debates, the same views held by extreme, right wing anti-government, and Tea Party adherents regarding government in general and taxation in particular. Singletary turned out to have been absolutely right about the inadequacy of import duties as a federal revenue source although it took many decades and a changing world to make that come to pass. Note also that there was then, as there is today among the extreme right, a deep suspicion and antipathy toward intellectuals—“men of learning” as well as the elites. Some saw the Constitution as a plot of the elite to capture control of the government to the exclusion of the poor and average man. That has always been a problem but these roots are deep in American history. See {634235} and {634238} for more of his arguments at the Ratification Convention.
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.
