 His stated plan was to become a university professor (a "priest of truth" as he and his friends imagined it), but he soon met and joined students of the Young Hegelians and the socialist movement.In his 1842 essay "The Reaction in Germany", he argued for the revolutionary role of negation, summed up in the phrase "the passion for destruction is a creative passion".After three semesters in Berlin, Bakunin went to Dresden where he became friends with Arnold Ruge.