| God and the State | |
| Title Orig: | Dieu et l'état |
| Translator: | Carlo Cafiero and Élisée Reclus |
| Author: | Mikhail Bakunin |
| Country: | France |
| Language: | English, translated from French |
| Genre: | Politics |
| Publisher: | Dover |
| Release Date: | 1882 |
| English Release Date: | 1883 |
| Media Type: | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages: | 89 p. (Dover Paperback Edition) |
| Isbn: | 978-0-486-22483-1 |
| Isbn Note: | (Dover Paperback Edition) |
| Dewey: | 335/.83 19 |
| Congress: | HX833 .B313 1970 |
| Oclc: | 192839 |
| Preceded By: | Founding of the First International |
| Followed By: | The Immorality of 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 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]