Bakunin
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As Mikhail Bakunin, a 19th-century anarchist, observed, “it’s painful to live in Russia if you value the truth.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
Bakunin thought that if his contemporary society was destroyed, the social instincts inherent to humanity would flower and people would “naturally” build a better society.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
As for anarchism, the 19th Century Russian philosophers Mikhail Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin are considered two of the most influential thinkers in anarchist history.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2019
Bin Laden speaks in the aristocratic voice of a terrorist-intellectual, a Muslim version of the 19th-century anarchist Mikhail Bakunin.
From Washington Post ● May 5, 2015
Sarojini apologized and slid into her place between Jim Bokanovsky and Herbert Bakunin.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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