Basic Bakunin : Unions

In this episode of this improved video series I explore the ideas of the anarchist thinker and revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin concerning unions

Further Reading

The Social and Political Thought of Michael Bakunin, by Richard B. Saltman.

Michael Bakunin: The Philosophical Basis of His Anarchism, by Paul McLaughlin (available online on the Libcom website)

Bakunin: The Philosophy of Freedom by Brian Morris (available from AK Press UK)

Bakunin: The Creative Passion, by Mark Leier (available online on the Anarchist Library website)

Bakunin on Anarchy, ed. Sam Dolgoff.

The Political Philosophy of Bakunin, ed. G.P. Maximoff.

The Basic Bakunin — Writings 1869–1871, ed. Robert M. Cutler.

Mikhail Bakunin — From Out of the Dustbin, ed. Robert M. Cutler.

Note: The collections by Dolgoff and Maximoff are a bit of a mixed bag, with Michael Bakunin: Selected Writings by Arthur Lehning offering a better selection of his work (available online on the Libcom website) Saltman’s, McLaughlin’s and Morris’s work go a long way towards rehabilitating the life and thought of Bakunin after so many works savaging him as a confused and clownish figure. Leier’s biography is an easy read and is a good antidote to the hatchet job of a biography written by E.H. Carr.