God and the State

God and the State
The cover of the first print in 1882.
AuthorMikhail Bakunin
Original titleDieu et l'état
TranslatorCarlo Cafiero and Élisée Reclus
LanguageEnglish, translated from French
GenrePolitics
PublisherDover
Publication date
1882
Publication placeFrance
Published in English
1883
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages89 p. (Dover Paperback Edition)
ISBN978-0-486-22483-1 (Dover Paperback Edition)
OCLC192839
335/.83 19
LC ClassHX833 .B313 1970
Preceded byFounding of the First International 
Followed byThe Immorality of the State 

God and the State (called by its author The Historical Sophisms of the Doctrinaire School of Communism) is an unfinished manuscript by the Russian anarchist philosopher Mikhail Bakunin, published posthumously in 1882. The work criticises Christianity and the then-burgeoning technocracy movement from a materialist, anarchist and individualist perspective.

Publication

God and the State was written in February and March 1871. It was originally written as Part II of a greater work that was going to be called The Knouto-Germanic Empire and the Social Revolution.[1]

The first issue of The Anarchist, published in 1885 in London by Henry Seymour, held an announcement of a translation into English by Marie Le Compte.[2] The International Publishing Company announced that the profits would go to the Red Cross of the Russian Revolutionary Party.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Leier, Mark (2006). Bakunin: The Creative Passion. Seven Stories Press. p. 306. ISBN 978-1-58322-894-4.
  2. ^ "On Picket Duty". Liberty (Not the Daughter But the Mother of Order). 1885-04-11. p. 47. Retrieved 2013-08-30.
  3. ^ An English anarchist (1885). The Criminal law amendment act. p. back cover. Retrieved 2013-08-30.
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