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Our task is terrible, inexorable, and universal destruction." The views thus expressed are quite in harmony with what Netschajew has written about revolutionary action in the writings mentioned above. "Words," he exclaims, "have no value for us, unless followed at once by action.
Brousse only had to borrow the thought, as we see, from Netschajew; and it is not difficult to say whence the latter got it. The opinion which ascribes the authorship of the Catechism of Revolution, and of the other writings above mentioned not to Netschajew but to Bakunin himself, has perhaps some foundation. But it matters little who is the author of these works.
Formerly the cleverest living chemist, he now oh! I shame to say it he now indulges in firework displays instead of manufacturing bombs with which to execute tyrants." She slowly dropped his hand and her eyes wore a clairvoyant expression. He was astounded. "Fireworks! Doesn't the prince hold by his old faith he, a pupil of Bakounine, Netschajew, and Kropotkin?"
But a picture of this pair of twin brothers will show us better than long essays how much of the total phenomenon of modern Anarchism is a product of Western hyper-philosophy, and how much is an inheritance of Russian Nihilism. Sergei Netschajew, the apostle and saint of Nihilist poesy, was born at St.
After that Netschajew disappeared, though occasionally showing himself in Switzerland and England. Finally, in 1872, he was nabbed by the Russian government, sent to Siberia, and ! Ugh! thought Arthur, what a people, what an ending!
The opponents of the Bakuninists maintain that the only purpose of these writings was, by their bloodthirsty tone, to compromise genuine revolutionaries, and give the police a weapon against them. But the whole spirit of Bakunin is expressed in the revolutionary Catechism, first made accessible to the public in the trial of Netschajew.
On one wall hung the portraits of Herzen, Bakounine and Kropotkin the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost of the anarchistic movement, as she piously called them. Other images of the propaganda were scattered over the walls: Netschajew the St.
At the same time as the Words, there were circulating in the circles influenced by Netschajew other writings, either written exclusively by himself or in conjunction with Bakunin, such as the Formula of the Revolutionary Question, the Principles of Revolution, the Publications of the People's Tribunal, all of which preached "total destruction" and Anarchism.
The Earliest Signs of Anarchist Views in Russia in 1848 The Political, Economic, Mental, and Social Circumstances of Anarchism in Russia Michael Bakunin Biography Bakunin's Anarchism Its Philosophic Foundations Bakunin's Economic Programme His Views as to the Practicability of his Plans Sergei Netschajew The Revolutionary Catechism The Propaganda of Action Paul Brousse.
We cannot leave Bakunin without a passing mention of his favourite pupil Sergei Netschajew, although he was still less of a pure Anarchist than Bakunin, and can still less easily be separated from Russian Nihilism. We regret all the more that we are limited to this source of information.
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