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God and the State, by Bakunin (book)
By: mistermax Date: January 15, 2016, 3:14 pm
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Who are right, the idealists or the materialists? The question
once stated in this way hesitation becomes impossible.
Undoubtedly the idealists are wrong and the materialists right.
Yes, facts are before ideas; yes, the ideal, as Proudhon said,
is but a flower, whose root lies in the material conditions of
existence. Yes, the whole history of humanity, intellectual and
moral, political and social, is but a reflection of its economic
history.
All branches of modem science, of true and disinterested
science, concur in proclaiming this grand truth, fundamental and
decisive: The social world, properly speaking, the human
world-in short, humanity-is nothing other than the last and
supreme development-at least on our planet and as far as we
know-the highest manifestation of animality. But as every
development necessarily implies a negation, that of its base or
point of departure, humanity is at the same time and essentially
the deliberate and gradual negation of the animal element in
man; and it is precisely this negation, as rational as it is
natural, and rational only because natural-at once historical
and logical, as inevitable as the development and realization of
all the natural laws in the world-that constitutes and creates
the ideal, the world of intellectual and moral convictions,
ideas.
Yes, our first ancestors, our Adams and our Eves, were, if not
gorillas, very near relatives of gorillas, omnivorous,
intelligent and ferocious beasts, endowed in a higher degree
than the animals of another species with two precious
faculties-the power to think and the desire to rebel.....
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