Mikhail Bakunin Quote

They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is: No dictatorship can have any other aim but that of self-perpetuation, and it can beget only slavery in the people tolerating it; freedom can be created only by freedom, that is, by a universal rebellion on the part of the people and free organization of the toiling masses from the bottom up.


The Political Philosophy of Bakunin: Scientific Anarchism (ed. Free Pr, 1953)


They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is: No...

They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is: No...

They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is: No...

They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is: No...