Rebellion is a righteous cause. Notes of a Russian anarchist

“I came to the conclusion that no state, and even more so all -Russian, could not hold out without meanness and atrocities,” Mikhail Bakunin wrote in the middle of the 19th century. - Breathing with oppression and deceit, the government should look at everyone inside and in the same way as enemies. The life of the government is a continuous series of vileness and crimes against all foreign peoples, as well as mainly against their own people and against its freedom. ” The nobleman by origin, the artillery officer, Bakunin deeply studied the socio-political theories modern, actively participated in the revolutionary movement and eventually became one of the most famous theorists of anarchism. He considered the popular uprising, rebellion, the rebellion, he considered the only way to transform society. “With the total poverty of the entire Russian people, brought by the paternal administration to such a desperate position, he has no other way out and salvation, as soon as in the most destructive riot,” Bakunin claimed. The book presents the works of M.A. Bakunin, characterizing his views