Mikhail Bakunin Knew What a Monster Karl Marx Was! By James Reed

Here is a view of Karl Marx by Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876), a Russian anarchist, meaning, not a supporter of bomb-throwing antifa, but anti-state and radically decentralised. He saw clearly the dangers of Marx, and Marxism. The following is from the polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski, in Main Currents of Marxism, vol. 1, The Founders, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1978, p. 250:

“Bakunin … not only combated Marx’s political programme but, as he often wrote, regarded Marx as a disloyal, revengeful man, obsessed with power and determined to impose his own despotic authority on the whole revolutionary movement. Marx, he said, has all the merits and defects of the …… character; he was highly intelligent and deeply read, but an inveterate doctrinaire and fantastically vain, an intriguer and morbidly envious of all who … cut a more important figure than himself in public life. Bakunin … inveighed against universities as the abodes of elitism and seminaries of a privileged caste; he also warned that Marxist socialism would lead to a tyranny of intellectuals that would be worse than any yet known to man.”

Bakunin got it right not only on Marxism, but also on the interrelated poison, the universities. What a pity Bakunin and the radical decentralists did not prevail – but that is just the conspiracy isn’t it? But if they had defeated globalist Marxism, we would not be facing the threat of a Chinese New World Order, and the Chinese people would probably be living in peace in traditional societies, instead of following the West to the eve of destruction.