ABSTRACT
When states as a scientific plan of action, the Mandan doctrine bears substantially the same relation to the efforts of utopian-evangelical reformers that chemistry does to the efforts of alchemists. It examines the structure of human society and determines the forces which control it, and upon the basis of those given facts which are not changeable, it proposes a method by which human society can be changed. But since the practical hypothesis in Marxism was mis-born and crippled to fit the forms of a metaphysical religion, its relation to anarchism is by no means so simple. There are certain respects in which Marxism is the less scientific of the two. It is less scientific in its attitude toward the goal of revolutionary effort. Bakunin himself did not entirely escape from that theoretical insanity which he despised; he wrote his share of Hegelian higher nonsense.
