Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin's writings examine the state, authority, freedom, revolution, religion, and the organization of social power. God and the State challenges the alliance between political domination and claims to absolute truth. Marxism, Freedom and the State places liberty and centralized revolutionary authority in direct tension, asking whether emancipation can be produced through institutions that concentrate command.

Bakunin on Anarchy and the collected writings bring related arguments into a broader view of collective action, hierarchy, and voluntary association. These texts do not present freedom as an isolated private condition. They connect it with material relations and the capacity of people to act together without replacing one ruling structure with another. The resulting questions concern both the ends of social change and the means chosen to pursue them.