Mertcan Bulak
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Ağustos 2020 tarihinde katıldı
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It is an irony of history that both Marx, Engels and Lenin all should hail the Paris Commune as a model of the proletarian revolution, while its attempt to abolish the machinery of the State at a stroke was clearly more in accord with the anarchist and federalist ideas of Proudhon and Bakunin.
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The communists wanted to organize the workers in order to seize the political power of the State, while the anarchists wished to liquidate the State. The former advocated the principle and practice of authority; the latter put their faith in liberty. Both equally favoured science, but the communists wanted to impose it by force, while the anarchists sought to propagate it so that groups could organize themselves spontaneously and in keeping with their own interests.
Even if a government composed exclusively of workers were elected by universal suffrage, they would become tomorrow ‘the most determined aristocrats, open or secret worshippers of the principle of authority, exploiters and oppressors’. They would rapidly lose their revolutionary will
For Bakunin, liberty without equality means the slavery of the majority; equality without liberty means the despotism of the State and the unjust rule of a privileged class.
Bakunin considers God to be such a threat to human liberty and virtue that he reverses the phrase of Voltaire to say ‘if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him’.
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