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The people are committed to ruinous policies, all without noticing. They have neither the experience nor the time to study all these laws and so they… - Mikhail Bakunin
" "The people are committed to ruinous policies, all without noticing. They have neither the experience nor the time to study all these laws and so they leave everything to their elected representatives. These naturally promote the interests of their class rather than the prosperity of the people, and their greatest talent is to sugarcoat their bitter measures, to render them more palatable to the populace. Representative government is a system of hypocrisy and perpetual falsehood. Its success rests on the stupidity of the people and the corruption of the public mind.
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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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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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