Rational anarchic: Bakunin

Michail Bakunin(1814-1876)the inventor of the modern anarchy, usually is depicted as a dreamer, utopic man, and in fact for his times he was so, because the propriety and war was a principal motive to survive for the States, but during the read of his book, The anarchic idea and the International, emerges a Bakunin very much pragmatic and concrete, that sees toward the policy and consider his league for the peace, that he, may, has founded in Berna(Switzerland), but he has shown, I repeat a concrete political think, because he consider the adherent and the ideal motive, but we can read his words: “What are the principles of our association? It is called League of peace and of the Liberty. It is very much; it distinguishes us from other that want and quest the peace to every way, even to sacrifice the liberty and of human dignity. We are distinct also from that English society, that abstracting for every form of policy, it imagines, that through the present organization of the Europe States the peace is possible. Contrary to these conditions sorely pacifist of these societies French and English, the our league declares that not believes to the peace and that want it alone the supreme condition of liberty…”; this step seems absolutely useless because doesn’t say almost nothing; certainly for the superficial reader it seems so, but we must consider that Bakunin has specified that the peace certainly is important, but for it his league not renounces: “Contrary to these conditions sorely pacifist of these societies French and English, the our league declares that not believes to the peace and that want it alone the supreme condition of liberty…”; this is the his league not can’t renounces to other valor, it is the political pragmatism, because the peace is expendable for the valor of dignity, hence the idealism, has became pragmatic, and regard the adherent: “…but for this it demands of to be determined, other wise we can’t remove us from the error, that can induce us to see alone bureaucratic adherent of the civil liberty, of constitutional monarchic, and liberal aristocratic and bourgeois, every adherent toward the privilege, and natural enemy of democracy…”; this second step is more important than first because now Bakunin considers not the abstract ideal, that is important, but he takes the human nature, the adherent that can musk his will behind the ideological lies; inasmuch he consider the men, therefore other pragmatic step. We must also consider that then the word democracy was the sign of socialism and destruction, whereby when Bakunin says: “…the Congress of Geneva has proclaimed that want found the peace on the democracy and on the liberty, hence it following that for to be member of our league, it must be democratic…”; today it is normal, but among the 1867 and 187, it was a declaration very bold, because it was the motive for to be attacked from the Monarchical, and Marxist and other, but every political movement for its begin is always extreme, and Bakunin followed this rule, but he followed also the pragmatic rules, hence he wanted a selection of members, and the earth ideal regard the peace; thence he was the first a political and after an anarchic.

Alessandro Lusana