Bakunin

American  

[buh-koo-nyin] / bʌˈku nyɪn /

noun

1. Mikhail Aleksandrovich 1814–76, Russian anarchist and writer.

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Bakunin British  

/ baˈkunin /

noun

1. Mikhail (mixaˈil). 1814–76, Russian anarchist and writer: a prominent member of the First International, expelled from it after conflicts with Marx

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• Bakunin vs. Marx

Example Sentences

When young, he studied in Berlin at the same time as Karl Marx and, while there, counted the future anarchist Mikhail Bakunin as a friend.

From Washington Post

Andrew Divoff — who played the Others’ one-eyed, death-defying enforcer Mikhail Bakunin — was similarly eloquent when I asked him why he thought his character was named for a famous Russian anarchist.

From Los Angeles Times

Later, on Instagram, he posted a quote from the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin: “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”

From The New Yorker

Mikhail Bakunin described him as “ambitious and vain, quarrelsome, intolerant and absolute…vengeful to the point of madness”.

From Economist

The great John Chrysostom frequently issued pronouncements on wealth and poverty that make Karl Marx and Mikhail Bakunin sound like timid conservatives.

From New York Times