Man, Society, and Freedom by Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin, in full Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (30 May 1814, Russia—1 July 1876, Bern, Switzerland) was a chief propagator of 19th-century anarchism, a prominent Russian revolutionary agitator, and a prolific political writer. His quarrel with Karl Marx split the anarchist and Marxist wings of the revolutionary socialist movement for many years after their deaths. [Text from Encyclopædia Britannica. Read more writings by Bakunin on Marxists Internet Archive]

“The materialistic, realistic, and collectivist conception of freedom, as opposed to the idealistic, is this: Man becomes conscious of himself and his humanity only in society and only by the collective action of the whole society.”