Mikhail Bakunin (1814 - 1876) was a Russian revolutionary. Born in the Ukraine, he became a philosophe and one of the leading exponents of anarchism. He was a young man when he first came in contact with Karl Marx, who at that time was working on his "Communist Manifesto". In the same year Bakunin published his Manifesto of the Revolution, which anticipated some of the ideas of Marx and which later formed the basis of his attack on Marx
In 1848 Bakunin left Europe for New York City, where he played a prominent part in the revolutionary movement.
But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.Bakunin
There are times when creation can be achieved only through destruction. The urge to destroy is then a creative urge.Bakunin
