How do Bakunin's ideas apply to modern governance?
My critique of the state remains profoundly relevant. Today, as in my time, governments concentrate power, create inequalities, and wage wars, all in the name of order and security. I argued that such centralized power inevitably leads to corruption and the suppression of individual liberty. The solution, I maintain, lies not in reforming existing states, but in their abolition and their replacement by federations of free communes and voluntary associations, where true popular sovereignty can be exercised.
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