God and 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.

God and the State

The cover of the first print in 1882.
Author	Mikhail Bakunin
Original title	Dieu et l'état
Translator	Carlo Cafiero and Élisée Reclus
Language	English, translated from French
Genre	Politics
Publisher	Dover
Publication date	1882
Publication place	France
Published in English	1883
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	89 p. (Dover Paperback Edition)
ISBN	978-0-486-22483-1 (Dover Paperback Edition)
OCLC	192839
Dewey Decimal	335/.83 19
LC Class	HX833 .B313 1970
Preceded by	Founding of the First International
Followed by	The Immorality of the State

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

• Anarchism and religion
• Anarchism in Russia
• Criticism of Christianity
• Criticism of Marxism
• List of books about anarchism