Bakunin for anti-Imperialists by Arthur Lehning

Author Biography Paul Arthur Müller-Lehning (1899-2000), born in Utrecht, the Netherlands, was an anarchist and syndicalist from the 1920s. Involved in the Anti-Militarist Bureau and the syndicalist International Workingmen’s Association, he fled Nazi Germany for the Netherlands in 1933. In 1935, he helped found the International Institute for Social History (IISH), which includes the Mikhail Bakunin archives, and the Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels papers. In 1940, he fled to Britain when the Nazis invaded. He retained some influence after his return to Europe. A prolific writer and editor, his masterwork was the edited works of Bakunin, published in French in 1976. The Use of Reading Bakunin for Anti-Imperialists On imperialism itself, [Mikhail] Bakunin [1814-1876] has nothing specifically to say. That is not strange, because imperialism in its modern form had not yet appeared; besides, opposition to imperialism by a revolutionary is a rather obvious thing. But I thi...