“Throughout Bakounin's writings there appears again and again the plea for "terrible, total, inexorable, and universal destruction.”

—  Robert Hunter (author)

Source: Violence and the Labor Movement (1914), p. 92

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American sociologist, author, golf course architect 1874–1942

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