Bakunin The Creative Passion-A Biography

Name: Bakunin The Creative Passion-A Biography
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ISBN: 9780312305383

ISBN-10: 0312305389

ISBN-13: 9780312305383

Edition: 2006

Authors: Mark Leier

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"The passion for destruction is a creative passion, " wrote the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin in 1842. Since then, the popular image of anarchism has been one of violence and terror. But this picture is wildly misleading, and the media has done more to obscure anarchism than to explain it. Focusing on the street fighting and confrontations with police, mainstream commentators are unable to understand what anarchism is or why a philosophy with roots in the nineteenth century has resurfaced with such power at the dawn of the new millennium. To understand anarchism, it is necessary to go beyond the caricature presented by the media. In this new biography of Mikhail Bakunin, Mark Leier traces the…

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 8/22/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Mark Leier received his PhD from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1992. Currently he is the chair of Simon Fraser University's History Department and lives in North Vancouver. He has written three books on Canadian labour history, and is the director of SFU's Centre for Labour Studies.



Introduction



Werewolves, Nobles, and the Idyll of Priamukhino



War, Slavery, and Service



Rules, Rebellion, and Romance



Shooting Blanks



The Main Illness of Our Generation



Contradiction Is the Source of Movement



The Passion for Destruction Is a Creative Passion



Gay Paris



Barricades Piled Up Like Mountains



Without Organization, We Will Never Gain Victory



Liberty Without Socialism Is Injustice; Socialism Without Liberty Is Slavery



The Revolutionary Is a Doomed Man



Hermaphrodite Man Versus Carbuncle Boy in the First International



The Only Liberty Deserving of the Name



We Detest All Power


Conclusion


Bibliographic Guide


Notes


Index