Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1814¨C1876) was an anarchist, born in a Russian nobility family, emigrated to Germany, Switzerland and France in 1840 and sentenced to death in 1849 for leading the Dresden uprising in Germany. He was extradited back to Germany in 1851, under lengthy detention and exile. He fled Britain in 1861, joined the First International in 1864, promoted anarchism under the influence of Prutonianism, advocated spontaneous revolts relying on peasants and prostitutes, abolished all states in twenty-four hours, established an individual ¡°absolute freedom¡± anarchist society, opposed to any discipline and authority, opposed to the proletarian revolution and the proletarian dictatorship, and actively