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If there is an undeniable fact, attested to a thousand times by experience, it is the corrupting effect produced by authority on those who manipulate… - Mikhail Bakunin
" "If there is an undeniable fact, attested to a thousand times by experience, it is the corrupting effect produced by authority on those who manipulate it It is absolutely impossible for a man who wields power to remain a moral man....
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About Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (Russian: Михаил Александрович Бакунин) (30 May 1814 – 1 July 1876) was a Russian political philosopher, anarchist, and noted atheist.
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Native Name:
Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович Баку́нин
Alternative Names:
Michael Bakunin
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Michail Alexandrovich Bakunin
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A. M. Bakunin
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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
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Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin
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May we not suppose that all men are equally inspired by God? Then, surely, there is no further use for mediators. But this supposition is impossible, because it is too clearly contradicted by the facts. It would compel us to attribute to divine inspiration all the absurdities and errors which appear, and all the horrors, follies, base deeds, and cowardly actions which are committed, in the world.
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That is because no state, not even the most republican and democratic, not even the pseudo-popular state contemplated by Marx, in essence represents anything but government of the masses from above downward, by an educated and thereby privileged minority which supposedly understands the real interests of the people better than the people themselves.
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