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God and the State

By: Mikhail Bakunin
Narrated by: Glen Reed
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Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) was a Russian revolutionary anarchist and is considered one of the most influential figures of anarchism. Bakunin’s God and the State, an unfinished manuscript published posthumously in 1882, is a classic and influential atheist text which sets out the anarchist critique of religion as bound up in legitimising the state. The work criticises Christianity and the technocracy movement from a materialist, anarchist, and individualist perspective. God and the State is one of Bakunin's best known works, which has been translated into, inter alia, Czech, German, Georgian, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Polish, Greek, Romanian, Turkish, and Yiddish.

Public Domain (P)2019 Woodkeep Audio Atheism Classics Politics & Government Russia

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a must read to comprehend modern political and cultural norms. So much erudition on the popular cultural foundations

a must read

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its a very powerful book and also very actual, especially Chapter 3. with what is happening today, the savant doing experiments on people, the religion of scientism, powerful book

powerful book

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Bakunin dismantles the abuses of the church, state and science(He knows how important science is but makes it clear it has it place and it cannot give answers to our social, political and cultural problems). This was my first audiobook to finish and I have to say I enjoyed it quite a lot. I have read part of his other work "Revolutionary catechism" and really connected with the ideas of the author. The book critique the power religion have over people's mind and gives an analysis on the different types of believers and how ultimately it is a tool to exert power over those who cling to it for hope of a better world. He critiques the states of the past and more modern states by highlighting the tendency for an elite to form , either by divine right in the past or by massive capital in the present.
The narrator did a good job and i did not have any problem following him.

A critique of abusive authority

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Brilliant analysis of state, religion and scientific tyrannies of the past and today, shame the missing pages

A must listen/read book for all thinking people

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