Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin was a Russian revolutionary anarchist and political philosopher, among the most influential figures of anarchism. Born into a noble family at Pryamukhino in the Tver Governorate, he took part in the 1848 Prague and 1849 Dresden uprisings, was sentenced to death and extradited several times, and escaped from exile in Siberia via Japan and the United States to London. In 1868 he joined the International Workingmen's Association, where he led the anarchist faction against Karl Marx until his expulsion in 1872. He argued that Marxist states would be one-party dictatorships ruling over the proletariat, and his book God and the State remains in print.