God and the State

A founder of modern philosophical anarchism presents a clear introduction to anarchist thought and a manifesto of atheism. God and the State (called by its author The Historical Sophisms of the Doctrinaire School of Communism) is an unfinished manuscript published posthumously in 1882. The work criticises Christianity and the then-burgeoning technocracy movement from a materialist anarchist and individualist perspective. Bakunin offers a mind-opening experience for even the most skeptical readers. . This influential work denounces religion as a weapon of the state that must be smashed in the pursuit of the right to self-determination.. It has gone on to become Bakunin's most widely read and praised work.