Mikhail Bakunin
Paperback | Pages: 112 pages Rating: 3.86 | 3147 Users | 152 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Dieu et l'État |
| ISBN: | 048622483X (ISBN13: 9780486224831) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Struggled through this book at times due to Bakunin's frequent digressions ... But when he stays on point, you get gems like this:"...religion is a collective insanity, the more powerful because it is traditional folly, and because its origin is lost in the most remote antiquity. As collective insanity it has penetrated to the very depths of the public and private existence of the peoples; it is incarnate in society; it has become, so to speak, the collective soul and thought. Every man is enveloped in it from his birth; he sucks it in with his mother's milk, absorbs it with all that he touches, all that he sees. He is so exclusively fed upon it, so poisoned and penetrated by it in all his being, that later, however powerful his natural mind, he has to make unheard-of efforts to deliver himself from it, and even then never completely succeeds."
"It should be added that, in general, it is the character of every metaphysical and theological argument to seek to explain one absurdity by another."
...which is why those of free-thought can never win a debate against those who have convinced themselves, by being bred from existence, to be without escape from this "mother's milk."
What I love most about Bakunin is his admission that the very moment he puts his ideas into words onto paper, they have become subject to antiquation. He recognizes that bc the future will undoubtedly be ripe with greater knowledge than he would have had access to in his own time, his ideas aren't so "awesome" as to keep them free from criticism. This grants me a sigh of relief towards listening to his premises. He had no intentions of writing a holy bible himself.
Be Specific About Regarding Books God and the State
| Title | : | God and the State |
| Author | : | Mikhail Bakunin |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 112 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 1970 by Dover Publications (first published 1882) |
| Categories | : | Philosophy. Politics. Nonfiction. Religion. Cultural. Russia |
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Ratings: 3.86 From 3147 Users | 152 ReviewsPiece Regarding Books God and the State
"Reduced, intellectually and morally as well as materially, to the minimum of human existence, confined in their life like a prisoner in his prison, without horizon, without outlet, without even a future if we believe the economists, the people would have the singularly narrow souls and blunted instincts of the bourgeois if they did not feel a desire to escape ; but of escape there are but three methodstwo chimerical and a third real. The first two are the dram-shop and the church, debauchery ofRead years ago. Will read again in the future and review.
Very convincing yet unfinished book about christianity and the state and how they are not so different. The uniting strand is authoritarianism.
This pamphlet, supposedly Bakunin's most comprehensive (but, literally, incomplete work), is another attempt at dialectics. In the end, it's the same game played by a Hegel or a Marx. Nonetheless, "God and the State" is a useful demonstration, in 19th century language, of 'anarchist' theory as it takes on the Church, Capitalism, and the State. As a writer, however, Bakunin is woefully outmatched by his long-time nemesis, Marx.
To quote Rothbard: "the demented Bakunin".Basically this book is just an attack on Christianity, on witch back it is put all evils (including the state). His arguments against religion/Christianity include many insults and very subjective, exagerated and unprovable assertion (about religion and state, the hystory of religion and the effect of religion), his more objective points are quite simple, definitely not something to put Christianity out.He is a militant atheist and his rage and hatred of
Really rambly arguments (especially at the end) against a specifically Christian god that really doesn't impact my life, not having been raised christian and all. There were a few parts with ringing eloquence on the independence of humans over god, the state, and science. Overall, contributed to a conversation of which I am not a part nor particularly interested in engaging.I really want to read all the 'fathers of anarchism,' so I'll know what the hell I'm talking about when people want to talk
I became interested in Bakunin after reading The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890-1914. I then saw that this one was available from the nice people at Librivox.http://librivox.org/god-and-the-state...This is a very interesting book. There are lots of fairly standard arguments against the existence of God Ive always been attracted to the idea, elaborated here, that God creating the universe (that is, something infinitely developed making something less developed) is the
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