God and the State
{{Short description|Unfinished manuscript by Mikhail Bakunin}}
{{Infobox book
| name = God and the State
| title_orig = Dieu et l'état
| translator = Carlo Cafiero and Élisée Reclus
| image = Dieu et l'état.jpg
| image_size = 190px
| caption = The cover of the first print in 1882.
| author = Mikhail Bakunin
| country = France
| language = English, translated from French
| series =
| genre = Politics
| publisher = Dover
| release_date = 1882
| english_release_date = 1883
| media_type = Print (Paperback)
| pages = 89 p. (Dover Paperback Edition)
| isbn = 978-0-486-22483-1
| isbn_note = (Dover Paperback Edition)
| dewey= 335/.83 19
| congress= HX833 .B313 1970
| oclc= 192839
| preceded_by = Founding of the First International
| followed_by = The 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.{{cite book|last=Leier|first=Mark|year=2006|pages=306|title=Bakunin: The Creative Passion|publisher=Seven Stories Press|isbn=978-1-58322-894-4}}
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.{{cite book |chapter=On Picket Duty|title=Liberty (Not the Daughter But the Mother of Order)|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XSkrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT47|access-date=2013-08-30|date=1885-04-11|page=47}}
The International Publishing Company announced that the profits would go to the Red Cross of the Russian Revolutionary Party.{{cite book|author=An English anarchist|title=The Criminal law amendment act|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=54cIAAAAQAAJ|access-date=2013-08-30 |year=1885 |page=back cover}}
See also
References
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External links
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- [http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_archives/bakunin/godandstate/godandstate_ch1.html Full text of God and the State]
- [http://www.revoltlib.com/anarchism/god-and-the-state/view.php Full text of God and the State, in PDF, EPub, and multiple other formats]
- [http://librivox.org/god-and-the-state-by-mikhail-bakunin/ Audiobook God and the State]
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Category:1887 non-fiction books
Category:Books by Mikhail Bakunin
Category:Books about anarchism
Category:Books critical of Christianity
Category:Books critical of religion
Category:Religion and politics
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