Human labor, in general, is still divided into two exclusive categories: the first — solely intellectual and managerial — includes the scientists, ar… - Mikhail Bakunin

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Human labor, in general, is still divided into two exclusive categories: the first — solely intellectual and managerial — includes the scientists, artists, engineers, inventors, accountants, educators, governmental officials, and their subordinate elites who enforce labor discipline The second group consists of the great mass of workers, people prevented from applying creative ideas or intelligence, who blindly and mechanically carry out the orders of the intellectual-managerial elite This economic and social division of labor has disastrous consequences for members of the privileged classes, the masses of the people, and for the prosperity, as well as the moral and intellectual development, of society as a whole.

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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 most terrible poverty, however, even when it strikes a proletariat numbering in the many millions, is not a sufficient guarantee of revolution. Nature has given man an astonishing and, indeed, sometimes despairing, patience, and the devil knows what he will not endure when, along with poverty that condemns him to unheard-of privations and slow starvation, he is also endowed with obtuseness, emotional numbness, lack of any consciousness of his rights, and the kind of imperturbability and obedience that particularly characterize the east Indians and the Germans, among all nations. Such a fellow will never take heart; he will die, but he will not rebel.

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Lo que predico es, pues, hasta un cierto punto, la rebelión de la vida contra la ciencia, o más bien contra el gobierno de la ciencia. No para destruir la ciencia –eso sería un crimen de lesa humanidad–, sino para ponerla en su puesto, de manera que no pueda volver a salir de él. Hasta el presente toda la historia humana no ha sido más que una inmolación perpetua y sangrienta de millones de pobres seres humanos a una abstracción despiadada cualquiera: Dios, patria, poder el estado, honor nacional, derechos históricos, derechos jurídicos, libertad política, bien público.

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