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BATTLE BETWEEN MARX AND BAKOUNIN 193
coherent; and their allegiance was to individuals rather
han to pnncples. Without much discrimination,
ailed
they
themselves
"communists," "Internationalists,"
collechvists » "anarchists," "socialists." Even the
erms e
they had not denned, and it was only toward the
nd of the International that the two combatants clashed
their pnncples into two antagonistic schools, so-
-ahsm and anarchism. Anarchism was no longer a
ague undefined philosophy of human happiness; it now
and
TJ
diStinCt
aII' u-
fr°m a11 other so^ial thenes.
After this no one need be in doubt as to its
waning and methods.
On the other hand, no thoughtil
person need longer remain in doubt as to the exact
eamng and methods of socialism. This work of defition
and clarification was the immense service
rmej oer-
by the International in its
eight brief years of
e.
'o
Throughout Europe and America, after 1872 these
forces openly declared that they had nothing in com-
>n either in method or in philosophy. To them at least
5 International had been a university.