RELIGION IN “"SOCIOMAGIC AND SOCIAL ENGINEERING OR GENERAL SOCIETY AND PUBLIC CONSTRUCTION" BY THE GORDIN BROTHERS
The author analyses the popular book “Sociomagic and Social Engineering or General Society and Public Construction” by famous anarchists, Abba and Wolf (Ze’ev) Gordin published in 1918. “Sociomagic…” was supposed to start a might-have-been multi-volume edition where the principles of Pan-Anarchism were to be represented. The main ides of the book was not to introduce a positive program, but to denounce the most dangerous idols of the time: Church and Marxism. The Gordin brothers considered Christianity and Marxism to be typologically identical utopias, “sociomagic” - one for future, another for a present time.