Ka cika wannan jumla: A cewar mutane da yawa, an haifi Rhodakanaty a ranar 14 ga Oktoba, 1828 a Athens, Girka, ga wani ɗan ƙasar Girka mai daraja da matarsa 'yar ƙasar Girka da ke da 'yan ƙasar Austriya. Mahaifin Rhodakanaty ya mutu bayan yakin Girka don 'yancin kai daga Turkawa, kuma mahaifiyarsa ta dauke shi zuwa Vienna. A 1848, Rhodakanaty ya tafi Budapest don taimakawa a cikin kasawar
Tashin hankalin Hungary na wannan shekarar. Ya kamata ya yi tafiya ta gaba zuwa Berlin inda aka fallasa shi ga ra'ayoyin Hegel, Fourier, da Proudhon. A shekara ta 1850, ya ziyarci Paris musamman don saduwa da Proudhon bayan ya karanta littafinsa "Menene Mallaka?" Yayin da yake a Paris, ya koyi game da tsarin karkara na Mexico na al'ummomin noma masu cin gashin kansu da kuma barazanar da tsarin jari hujja da keɓaɓɓu suka gabatar musu. Ya goyi bayan ƙoƙarin ceton su kuma ya tafi Barcelona inda ya zauna aƙalla shekaru biyu a cikin babban al'ummar anarchist a can. Rhodakanaty ya shirya don taimakawa wajen ceton wannan hanyar rayuwa a Mexico.