Heaven is within us, and it is within ourselves that we must live—that two souls can meet is happiness; that they may not meet is not yet misfortune.
The heaven that we have within us is eternal.
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Bakunin and Proudhon / Authority and Anarchy
If (in the passage from God and the State discussed in the last post) Bakunin has not simply changed the meaning of the word “authority” from one paragraph to the next, as he moves from […]
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Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis — First Letter (1870)
[There are two manuscripts by Bakunin with titles very close to “Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis,” written one after the other and overlapping in some places, but substantially different. The 12,000-word “Letters […]
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Mikhail Bakunin, “Madame Léo and l’Egalité” (1869)
Madame Léo and l’Egalité [L’Egalité(Geneva), March 13 & 27, 1869] We have inserted this letter all the more willingly because it eloquently summarizes the reasons that militate in favor of a rapprochement of the different […]