state
Social constitution and the form of the capitalist state
Werner Bonefeld's analysis of the formation of the capitalist state and its relationship to the social organisation of the working class.
Introduction
Force, Violence and Dictatorship in the Class Struggle
Force, Violence, and Dictatorship in the Class Struggle deals with the questions of the use of force in social relationships and the characteristics of the revolutionary dictatorship according to left communist interpretation.
[b]I. Actual and Potential Violence[/b]
In the history of social aggregates we recognise the use of material force and violence in an overt form whenever we observe conflicts and clashes among individuals and among groups which result, through many different forms, in the material injury and destruction of physical individuals.
The Origin of The Family, Private Property and the State
After Marx's death, in rumaging through Marx's manuscripts, Engels came upon Marx's precis of Ancient Society -- a book by progressive US scholar Lewis Henry Morgan and published in London 1877. The precis was written between 1880-81 and contained Marx's numerous remarks on Morgan as well as passages from other sources.
The State: Its Historic Role - Peter Kropotkin
Famous Russian anarchist Prince Peter Kropotkin's classic work on the state, its revolution and its function in society.
God and the State - Mikhail Bakunin
Bakunin's classic and highly influential atheist text setting out the anarchist critique of religion as bound up in legitimising the state.
The text is from Michael Bakunin, God and the State, 1916, New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association.
God and the State by Michael Bakunin [1814-1876]
Rousseau's Theory of the State
Rousseau's Theory of the State
by Michael Bakunin
. . . We have said that man is not only the most individualistic being on earth -- he is also the most social. It was a great mistake on the part of Jean Jacques Rousseau to have thought that primitive society was established through a free agreement among savages.
Power Corrupts the Best
Power Corrupts The Best
by Michael Bakunin (1867)
The State is nothing else but this domination and exploitation regularised and systemised. We shall attempt to demonstrate it by examining the consequence of the government of the masses of the people by a minority, at first as intelligent and as devoted as you like, in an ideal State, founded on a free contract.
Where I Stand
WHERE I STAND
By Michael Bakunin
I am a passionate seeker after truth (and no less embittered enemy of evil doing fictions) which the party of order, this official, privileged and interested representative of all the past and present religions, metaphysical, political, juridical and "social" atrociousness claim to employ even today only to make the world stupid and enslave it, I am a fanatical lover of truth and freedom which I consider the only surroundings in which intelligence, consciousness and happiness develop and increase.
Solidarity in Liberty
From: Bakunin's Writings, Guy A. Aldred Modern Publishers, Indore Kraus Reprint co. New York 1947
SOLIDARITY IN LIBERTY
Michael Bakunin
The Workers Path To Freedom (1867)
From this truth of practical solidarity or fraternity of struggle that I have laid down as the first principle of the Council of Action flows a theoretical consequence of equal importance. The workers are able to unite as a class for class economic action because all religious philosophies, and systems of morality which prevail in any given order of society are always the ideal expression of its real, material situation.
The Immorality of the State
The Immorality of the State
by Mikhail Bakunin [1814-1876]
Ethics: Morality of the State
The Theory of Social Contract.
