There are times when creation can be achieved only through destruction. The urge to destroy is then a creative urge. - Mikhail Bakunin

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There are times when creation can be achieved only through destruction. The urge to destroy is then a creative urge.

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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 Michail Alexandrovich Bakunin A. M. Bakunin Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin Bakunin
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The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too!

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Pero he aquí que llega Satanás, el eterno rebelde, el primer librepensador y el emancipador de los mundos. Avergüenza al hombre de su ignorancia de su obediencia animales; lo emancipa e imprime sobre su frente el sello de la libertad y de la humanidad, impulsándolo a desobedecer y a comer del fruto de la ciencia.

The only difference between revolutionary dictatorship and the state is in external appearances. Essentially, they both represent the same government of the majority by a minority in the name of the presumed stupidity of the one and the presumed intelligence of the other.

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Representative democracy, however, harmonizes marvelously with the capitalist economic system. This new statist system, basing itself on the alleged sovereignty of the so-called will of the people, as supposedly expressed by their alleged representatives in mock popular assemblies, incorporates the two principal and necessary conditions for the progress of capitalism: state centralization, and the actual submission of the sovereign people to the intellectual governing minority, who, while claiming to represent the people, unfailingly exploits them.

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