The Science of Revolutionary Warfare

INTRODUCTION
Few students of turbulent politics fail to look backward to the anarchist activities during the last half of the 19th century and to one of the formost promoters - a man by the name of Johann Most (1846 - 1906). His most controversial work "Revolutionare Kriegswissenschaft " (Military Science for Revolutionaries) has been wrongly credited by some writers as his contribution to the American anarchist movement. While written in America in 1884, it was directed to the German and Austrian anarchist, who were largely from the working class as opposed to their Russian counterparts, the Nihilists, who had many highly trained technicians.

Most, originally a printer & bookbinder, was run out of Germany in 1878. He next went to England where he endeared himself to the English people by advocating regicide (the killing of kings). The English, typical of their dry sense of humor, rewarded him with a long sentence at hard labor.

Seeking a more compatible environment, Most emigrated to America in 1882 where he went to work in an explosives plant in New Jersey! It was here that he obtained enough "nuts & bolts " knowledge of explosives to write this handbook as an aid to his comrades in central Europe.