Mikhail Bakunin
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Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (May 8, 1814 - June 1, 1876) was a well-known Russian anarchist contemporaneous to Karl Marx. He was best known as one of the first generation of anarchist philosophers, and has been called one of the "fathers of anarchism". He was also a freemason.
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Cultural references
- Bakunin is a character in Tom Stoppard's 2002 trilogy of plays The Coast of Utopia.
- A character in the TV show Lost was named after him.
- After the first ever TV appearance of the Sex Pistols, on the Granada Television show So It Goes in August 1976, presenter Tony Wilson's immediate reaction to their performance of 'Anarchy in the UK' was: "Bakunin would have loved it."
- Quoted in KMFDM's song "Stray Bullet" from their album Symbols, specifically the quote "even if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him."
- Bakunin is named amongst a list of other historical political figures in a line of the nihilistic song, Nothing by The Fugs: "Karlos Marx nothing, Engels nothing, Bakunin Kropotkin — nyuthing! Leon Trotsky, lots of nothing; Stalin less than nothing!"
- Bakunin's The Patriotism is the book Mallory (James Coburn) throws into the mud as a result of a discussion with Juan Miranda (Rod Steiger) in Sergio Leone's 1972 film Duck, You Sucker.
- The biography of Bakunin is sung about in the song "Bakunin", by the punk/ska band Against All Authority.
- Canadian post-rock band Bakunin's Bum.
- Bakunin, along with Lenin, Marx, and Trotsky is one of the existing last names in the novel Brave New World.
- Revolutionary Chinese writer Ba Jin took his nom de plume from the first syllable of Bakunin, and the last syllable of Kropotkin.
- Boris Akunin chose his pen-name as a reference to Bakunin.
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