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A Circular Letter to my Friends in Italy (1871)"Die Reaktion in Deutschland" Jahrbuch fur Wissenshaft und Kunst (1842)God and the State (1871)The International and Karl Marx (1872)

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Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876), Russian political theorist. "Die Reaktion in Deutschland," Jahrbuch fur Wissenshaft und Kunst (1842).

The phrase in Bakunin's article, "Reaction in Germany" (written under the pseudonym "Jules Elysard"), was later adopted as an anarchist slogan.....

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