Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin: God and the state (1980, Pirate Press)
86 pages
English language
Published Jan. 24, 1980 by Pirate Press.
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. Early editions contained rewrites by Carlo Cafiero and Élisée Reclus in order to make the work more poetic in the translated French and due to misreadings, but later translations have attempted to remain more faithful to the original text. It has gone on to become Bakunin's most widely read and praised work.
Has good points and evidence, but some arguments are not well-argued. Bakunin seems very antagonistic at points which clouds his judgement. Well-written, however, and thorough such that I will find myself reading it again later!
Se trata de un montón de reflexiones hechas por Bakunin en 1867 sobre ateísmo. Nada nuevo para los ateos que vivimos en 2017, pero lo sorprendente es que podría haber sido escrito hoy y aún así sería bastante vanguardista.
Aunque no sigue un esquema lógico de pensamiento ya que se trata de un montón de apuntes, me quedo con la comparación entre Dios/estado y opresión frente a la aceptación natural de lo libertario. Es probablemente la parte que realmente da un valor añadido al libro.
