Anarchists were generally much more suspicious of the virtues of national unification than were Marx & Engels. Concerning the American Civil War, Marx & Engels were strong supporters of Lincoln, whereas Proudhon was supportive of the Confederacy. I am not sure that Bakunin had any particular opinion concerning the American Civil War.
Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant
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I don't know Bakunin's writing except through Marx's arguments against it, but I think that he took a much more optimistic view of German unification than Bakunin did.
Chris wrote: ' it seems that here we are talking about something that divides the working class inside a capitalist society (Britain) and by extension wars between capitalist nations (such as WWI), and so is not applicable to wars between capitalist countries and non (pre)capitalist ones that don't have a working class, like Britain in India for example.'
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