Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin:
(Pyamukhino, 30 May 1814 – Bern, 1 July 1876).
Russian anarchist thinker and organiser.
Initially a democratic panslavist, Bakunin became an anarchist around the age of 50. His vision of an anarchist society is called collective anarchism. Collective-anarchism is a society with voluntarily formed labour associations and communities that can federalise. All officials are democratically elected and can be deposed at any time. Every individual, association and community has the right of self-determination and can leave an association at any time. Bakunin elaborated a theory of tactics during his anarchist period. Followers of both his theory of tactics and collective anarchism are known as Bakunists.
Freedom without socialism means privilege and injustice; and socialism without freedom means slavery and oppression.
