Mikhail Bakunin quotes - page 5

This means that no state, howsoever democratic its forms, not even the reddest political republic - a people's republic only in the sense of the lie known as popular representation - is capable of giving the people what they need: the free organization of their own interests from below upward, without any interference, tutelage, or coercion from above. 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. (Mikhail Bakunin)

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin - Image
Occupation: Russian Revolutionary
Born: May 30, 1814
Died: July 1, 1876
Quotes count: 101
Wikipedia: Mikhail Bakunin

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