God and the State
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~35,200 words · 167 passages
Cite this work
- APAMikhail Bakunin. (n.d.). God and the State. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/mikhail-bakunin/god-and-the-state
- MLAMikhail Bakunin. "God and the State." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/mikhail-bakunin/god-and-the-state.
- ChicagoMikhail Bakunin. God and the State. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/mikhail-bakunin/god-and-the-state.
What it is about
God and the State: the most read piece in all of anarchism.
Context and history
Bakunin neither finished it nor titled it: these are loose pages from a larger manuscript that Cafiero and Reclus published in 1882, six years after his death. 'If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.' The text stops mid-sentence, literally.
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