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Bakunin

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Ba·ku·nin  (b-knn, -nyn), Mikhail Aleksandrovich 1814-1876.
Russian anarchist and political theorist who was imprisoned and later exiled to Siberia for his revolutionary activities. He escaped to London (1861), where he opposed Karl Marx. Bakunin's theories of anarchy are considered the antithesis of Marx's communism.

Bakunin (Russian) [baˈkunin]
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(Biographies / Bakunin, Mikhail (1814-1876) M, Russian, POLITICS: anarchist, WRITING: writer) Mikhail (mixaˈil). 1814-76, Russian anarchist and writer: a prominent member of the First International, expelled from it after conflicts with Marx
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Noun1.Bakunin - Russian anarchist; ally and later opponent of Karl Marx (1814-1876)


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The mountaintop retreat--nominally founded by the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin (at a time when it was still known as Monescia) in the 1870s--flourished between 1900 and 1940, when it attracted anarchists, nudists, and Theosophists alongside such figures as Martin Buber, Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara, Rudolf von Laban, Isadora Duncan, Hermann Hesse (who famously had his alcoholism treated there), and the sexual revolutionary Otto Gross.
Figure II Other Possible Candidates (with Tentative Category Assignments) Ludwig Feuerbach, 1804-72 (I) Moses Hess, 1812-75 (I) Max Stirner, 1806-56 (I) Richard Wagner, 1815-83 (I) Hector Berlioz, 1803-69 (I) Mikhail Bakunin, 1814-76 (I) H.
The efforts of such groups as the Italian Carbonari, the Anarchist followers of Michael Bakunin, and the Socialist and Communist descendants of Karl Marx gained impetus from the Illuminati and have sought to achieve Weishaupt's goal.
 
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