On this day, 30 May 1814, Mikhail Bakunin, Russian revolutionary and founder of collectivist anarchism was born. Born in Tsarist Russia, Bakunin developed a burning hatred of injustice. He left the Army and threw himself into the radical movement, playing a leading role in the 1848 insurrection in Dresden. He was deported from France, arrested and sentenced to death in Germany, extradited and sentenced to death in Austria, extradited and jailed in Russia then exiled to Siberia, from where he escaped.
Although sometimes flawed, his experiences led him to develop the ideas which formed the basis of the modern anarchist movement in the last decade of his life.
This is a short account of his incredible life: https://libcom.org/history/bakunin-mikhail-1814-1876 https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1438696202982192/?type=3