The Political Philosophy of Bakunin: Scientific Anarchism

Publisher’s Preface, BY BERT F. HOSELITZ ......Page 7
Introduction, BY RUDOLF ROCKER ......Page 15
Mikhail Bakunin — a Biographical Sketch, BY MAX NETTLAU ......Page 26
PART I — PHILOSOPHY ......Page 47
The World-Outlook ......Page 48
Idealism and Materialism ......Page 55
Science: General Outlook ......Page 63
Science and Authority ......Page 72
Modern Science Deals in Falsities ......Page 76
Man: Animal and Human Nature ......Page 78
Man as Conqueror of Nature ......Page 83
Mind and Will ......Page 87
Man Subject to Universal Inevitability ......Page 93
Religion in Man’s Life ......Page 100
Man Had to Look for God Within Himself ......Page 109
Ethics: Divine or Bourgeois Morality ......Page 115
Ethics: Exploitation of the Masses ......Page 123
Ethics: Morality of the State ......Page 131
Ethics: Truly Human or Anarchist Morality ......Page 141
Ethics: Man the Product of Environment ......Page 147
Society and the Individual ......Page 152
Individuals Are Strictly Determined ......Page 159
Philosophy of History ......Page 164
PART II — CRITICISM OF EXISTING SOCIETY ......Page 171
Property Could Arise Only in the State ......Page 172
The Present Economic Regime ......Page 175
Class Struggle in Society Inevitable ......Page 181
Checkered History of the Bourgeoisie ......Page 186
Proletariat Long Enslaved ......Page 192
Peasants’ Day Is Yet to Come ......Page 196
The State: General Outlook ......Page 199
The Modern State Surveyed ......Page 203
Representative System Based on Fiction ......Page 210
Patriotism’s Part in Man’s Struggle ......Page 218
Class Interests in Modern Patriotism ......Page 225
Law, Natural and Invented ......Page 230
Power and Authority ......Page 241
State Centralization and Its Effects ......Page 249
The Element of Discipline ......Page 252
PART III — THE SYSTEM OF ANARCHISM ......Page 254
Freedom and Equality ......Page 255
Federalism: Real and Sham ......Page 263
State Socialism Theories Weighed ......Page 269
Criticism of Marxism ......Page 275
Social-Democratic Program Examined ......Page 281
Stateless Socialism: Anarchism ......Page 286
Founding of the Workers’ International ......Page 293
Economic Solidarity at Its Widest ......Page 300
What the Workers Lack ......Page 307
Fatherland and Nationality ......Page 316
Women, Marriage, and Family ......Page 318
Upbringing and Education ......Page 319
Summation ......Page 330
PART IV — TACTICS AND METHODS OF REALIZATION ......Page 340
The Rationale of Revolutionary Tactics ......Page 341
Economic Problem Underlies All Others ......Page 348
Socio-Economic and Psychological Factors ......Page 357
Revolution and Revolutionary Violence ......Page 362
Methods of the Preparatory Period ......Page 369
Jacobins of 1870 Feared Revolutionary Anarchy ......Page 379
Revolution by Decrees Doomed to Failure ......Page 387
Revolutionary Program for the Peasants ......Page 394
On the Morrow of the Social Revolution ......Page 399
Source Bibliography ......Page 406
Source Notes ......Page 407