7 Mikhail Bakunin Quotes on Revolution

Mikhail Bakunin quotes on revolution

10. Not official revolutionary commissars in any sort of sashes, but rather revolutionary propagandists are to be dispatched into all the provinces and communes and particularly among the peasants who cannot be revolutionised by principles, nor by the decrees of any dictatorship, but only by the act of revolution itself, that is to say, by the consequences that will inevitably ensure in every commune from complete cessation of the legal and official existence of the state.

11. The peoples' revolution .... will arrange its revolutionary organisation from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre, in keeping with the principle of liberty.

21. Of escape there are but three methods - two chimerical and a third real. The first two are the dram-shop and the church, debauchery of the body or debauchery of the mind; the third is social revolution.

28. All that individuals can do is to clarify, propagate and work out ideas corresponding to the popular instinct, and, what is more, to contribute their incessant efforts to revolutionary organization of the natural power of the masses - but nothing else beyond that.

29. Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

39. If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Czar himself.

54. On the first day of a revolution, he is a perfect treasure; on the second, he ought to be shot.