My Test Post on Habla with a Bakunin quote having Rabindranath in Mind
I am working this morning for compiling a book of Rabindranath Tagore with his texts selected by myself to approach his position on love, marriage, family, and the quest of relationships in Bangla language. The name of the book to be edited by myself will be Ideal Love. I was recalling how I discovered Tagore as a world class author on individual freedom. In doing so I remembered Mikhail Bakunin. I met him through his writings in late 1990s. I remembered: "I am a fanatic lover of liberty." Wow, liberty is a love affair for him! Instantaneously I felt its me writing this with a pen name: Bakunin. Well, let me put that quote here:
I am an impassioned seeker of the truth, and as bitter an enemy of the vicious fictions used by the established order - an order which has profited from all the religious, metaphysical, political, juridical, economic, and social infamies of all times - to brutalize and enslave the world. I am a fanatical lover of liberty. I consider it the only environment in which human intelligence, dignity, and happiness can thrive and develop. I do not mean that formal liberty which is dispensed, measured out, and regulated by the State; for this is a perennial lie and represents nothing but the privilege of a few, based upon the servitude of the remainder. Nor do I mean that individualist, egoist, base, and fraudulent liberty extolled by the school of Jean Jacques Rousseau and every other school of bourgeois liberalism, which considers the rights of all, represented by the State, as a limit for the rights of each; it always, necessarily, ends up by reducing the rights of individuals to zero. No, I mean the only liberty worthy of the name, the liberty which implies the full development of all the material, intellectual, and moral capacities latent in every one of us; the liberty which knows no other restrictions but those set by the laws of our own nature. Consequently there are, properly speaking, no restrictions, since these laws are not imposed upon us by any legislator from outside, alongside, or above ourselves. These laws are subjective, inherent in ourselves; they constitute the very basis of our being. [Bakunin, The Paris Commune and the idea of the state, Edited by Sam Dolgoff, First Vintage Books Edition, 1972, p. 261.]
"Habla" means "to speak", in Spanish, one of its contributors @Tony told me. To speak here on #Nostr is to speak uncensorably. That is where appear Rabindranath and Bakunin for the moment.
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