Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:43:55 -0400
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: petty anarchist marxist squabbling


>that said, i spent quite a long time studying bakunin back in my anarchist
>days, and feel i'm not wrong about him. my critique of him developed as an
>anarchist, prior to my gradual move toward marxism. i feel that bakunin is
>the weakest link in anarchism, which is why when i recomend books on
>anarchism to read i recommend kroptkin, goldman, berkman, malatesta, etc.
>and not bakunin. in my opinion, they took what was good in his thinking and
>went forward with it. had anarchism stayed bakuninist, i think it would have
>become authoritarian very quickly.

Philosophical idealism.

Louis Proyect
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