Full Idea
The science of law, based upon metaphysics but in reality upon the class interests of the propertied classes, sought to discover a rational basis for the existence of the State. They reverted to the fiction of the general and tacit agreement or contract.
Gist of Idea
The tacit general contract was a fiction, supporting the propertied classes
Source
Mikhail Bakunin (Science and the Urgent Revolutionary Task [1870], p.144)
A Reaction
Might one raise the same challenge to Rawls's original position? I don't think Rousseau is committed to any particular outcome of the initial contract, and anarchists can offer their own version of how the first contract might have gone.
Book Reference
'The Anarchists', ed/tr. Horowitz,Irving L. [Dell 1964], p.144