This study is not intended to question Bakunin’s status as an "anarchist", if by that we mean a thinker and man of action who developed radical critical thinking about the nature and the function of the state, but simply to question his use of the word "anarchy". Nothing more.
This study, we believe, shows that the word “anarchy” in Bakunin is used mainly in its usual sense ; that the meaning of the word is often ambivalent since in the same text the word can be used with two opposite (...)