The Marx-Bakunin Conflict in the First International: A Confrontation of Political Practices
Angaut, Jean-Christophe
The Marx-Bakunin Conflict in the First International: A Confrontation of Political Practices - 2007.
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The conflict between Marx and Bakunin within the First International was more than a merely political opposition. It was in fact a conflict about the very status of the political. Accused of being apolitical, Bakunin replied by declaring his anti-statist stance, while at the same time misinterpreting the Marxian political project. The position he defended within the International prefigured the anarcho-syndicalist subsumption of the political within syndicalism. In return, the opposition helped to clarify the Marxian conception of worker organizations. Finally, the conflict would enable Bakunin to identify the dangers of bureaucratization to which such organizations are prone, while Marx, for his part, sought to conceive of a type of political action which was specific to the proletariat. The conflict thus enables us to characterize Marx and Bakunin as two types of militant engagement.
The Marx-Bakunin Conflict in the First International: A Confrontation of Political Practices - 2007.
37
The conflict between Marx and Bakunin within the First International was more than a merely political opposition. It was in fact a conflict about the very status of the political. Accused of being apolitical, Bakunin replied by declaring his anti-statist stance, while at the same time misinterpreting the Marxian political project. The position he defended within the International prefigured the anarcho-syndicalist subsumption of the political within syndicalism. In return, the opposition helped to clarify the Marxian conception of worker organizations. Finally, the conflict would enable Bakunin to identify the dangers of bureaucratization to which such organizations are prone, while Marx, for his part, sought to conceive of a type of political action which was specific to the proletariat. The conflict thus enables us to characterize Marx and Bakunin as two types of militant engagement.
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