God and the State

God and the State is an unfinished [creative work|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.

Publication

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.
The first issue of The [Anarchist (newspaper)|The Anarchist], published in 1885 in London by Henry [Seymour (secularist)|Henry Seymour], held an announcement of a translation into English by Marie Le Compte.
The International Publishing Company announced that the profits would go to the Red Cross of the Russian Revolutionary Party.