Dieu et l’État vs Roads to Freedom: Which Should You Read?
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Dieu et l’État
“Who are right, the idealists or the materialists?”
God and the State (called by its author The Historical Sophisms of the Doctrinaire School of Communism) is an unfinished manuscript by the Russian anarchist philosopher Mikhail Bakunin, published posthumously in 1882.…
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Roads to Freedom
THE attempt to conceive imaginatively a better ordering of human society than the destructive and cruel chaos in which mankind has hitherto existed is by no means modern: it is at least as old as Plato, whose Republic''…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Dieu et l’État has the widest readership — 5505 ratings behind its score.
- Roads to Freedom reaches further in scholarship and criticism — cited 33 times.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Dieu et l’État | Roads to Freedom | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (5505) | 3.9 (1064) |
| Hardcover | — | 4.0 (2) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.0 (14) |
Reception
| Dieu et l’État | Roads to Freedom | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 5505 | 1064 |
| Editions | 105 | 59 |
| Citations | 2 | 33 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | 9529 | 3470 |
| Reading it now | 477 | 174 |
| Written reviews | 434 | 115 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 1448 |
| Pages | 84 | 158 |