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The Immorality of the State Published 187? |
Editor's Note: Since Bakunin is a pure anarchist, there is absolutely no proper purpose. The state should be destroyed. Now. See Bakunin - What is the State?.
Bakunin vituperates...
This transcendent, super-human, and therefore anti-human morality of States is not only the result of the corruption of men who are charged with carrying on State functions. One might say with greater right that corruption of men is the natural and necessary sequel of the State institution. This morality is only the development of the fundamental principle of the State, the inevitable expression of its inherent necessity. The State is nothing else but the negation of humanity; it is a limited collectivity which aims to take the place of humanity and which wants to impose itself upon the latter as a supreme goal, while everything else is to submit and minister to it.
