Mikhail Bakunin, the Russian father of anarchism, possessed an aristocratic temperament inherited from his family and was capable of charming all kinds of people, transcending barriers of class, social origin, and nationality. He was a sociable being. "Voluntary solitude is almost identical to selfishness, and can a selfish person be happy?" he wrote at a very young age, thus rejecting Rousseau's supposed perfect solitude. Josep Alemany explains all this in his insightful introduction to the classic and great work. best-seller by Bakunin God and the State (Adesiara), which he himself translated.