ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the history of Michael Bakounin as he gradually developed in theory and in practice the principles and tactics of terrorism. Absolutism was to Bakounin a universal destroyer of the best and the noblest qualities in man. He was a very real product of Russia's infamy, and worshiping Satan and preaching ideas of destruction that comprehended Cosmos itself. He conceived his plan of a secret international organization of revolutionists. As a scheme this secret organization is remarkable. It included some orders. In order to enable them to work separately but harmoniously, Bakounin, who had chosen himself as the supreme law-giver, wrote for each of the orders a program of principles, a code of rules, and a plan of methods all its own. Bakounin wished to introduce into the International Working Men's Association. While struggling to obtain the leadership of the working classes of Western Europe, Bakounin was also busy with Russian affairs.
