God and the State

Name: God and the State
Author: Mikhail Bakunin

by Mikhail Bakunin

Anarchist critique of state, religion, and authority in human liberation

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Mikhail Bakunin

Russian revolutionary anarchist whose God and the State is the classic statement of anarchist anti-authoritarianism. His conflict with Marx over the International split the left and defined the anarchist-Marxist divide. He argued that the state, even a socialist one, is inherently oppressive.

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