ABSTRACT
Michael Bakunin was born in 1814 in the Government of Tver. He was the son of a prosperous and noble landed proprietor. He became an officer but soon left the Army and in 1840, being an enthusiastic Hegelian, went to Germany to study philosophy at Berlin University. His teachers were partly the same as Marx's. At the beginning of 1848, when he met Marx in Brussels, he said to a friend that Marx was spoiling the workers by turning them into raisonneurs. Bakunin visited Marx in London at the end of October, 1864, when he was writing the inaugural address for the International. The meeting passed off in an entirely amicable manner. In Engels opinion it would be best firmly but quietly to dismiss these people with their pretensions to insinuate themselves into the International'. Marx agreed with Engels, and the General Council declined to confirm the statutes of the Alliance as an organisation within the International.
