(58) Bakunin saw that Marx's communism would become autocratic state authoritarianism.
Bakunin, the strongest rival of Marcus Engels.
If he were merely an attraction, he could easily have been unseated by the political power of Marx Engels. He has done it time and time again: belittle his enemies, slander them, and isolate them through political maneuvering.
The real threat, however, lay in Bakunin's detection of a crucial weakness in Marx-Engels' thought. Bakunin saw exactly where their ideas were going. One can only be astonished at how astute he was.