Democracy as Virtue and as Condition of Workers' Power
We should understand objective conditions of the early history of the International. Arguments held between Marx and the anarchist Bakunin during the 1st International will be very instructive for us, in that they held the same aims but it was ultimately required and easily justified on rational grounds for Bakunin to be expelled from the International. It is usefully quoted in an Ann Robertson text1 from 2003: “Bakunin, however, proceeds: “There are about forty million Germans....