"The 'Communist' pretends to organize the working classes in order to 'capture the political power of the State'.
The revolutionary socialists organize people with the object of the liquidation of the States altogether whatever
be their form. The first are the partisans of authoritativeness in theory and practice, the socialists have
confidence only in freedom to develop the initiative of peoples in order to liberate themselves. The communist
authoritarians wish to force class 'science upon others, the social libertarians propagate empirical science among
them so that human groups and aggregations infused with conviction in and understanding of it, spontaneously,
freely and voluntarily, from bottom upwards, organize themselves by their own motion and in the measure of
their strength - not according to a plan sketched out in advance and dictated to them, a plan which is attempted
to be imposed by a few 'highly intelligent, honest and all that' upon the so-called ignorant masses from above."
- from "Where I Stand," by Mikhail Bakunin, 1862
The author and his supporters were most likely influenced in their beliefs by which feature of the industrial era?
A)
changes in family dynamics and gender roles
B)
rapid urbanization and unsanitary conditions
C)
proliferation of large-scale transnational businesses
D)
establishment of settler colonies and economic imperialism