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BiographyEdit

Early yearsEdit

According to biographer Frederic Trautmann, Johann Joseph Most was born out of wedlock to a governess and a clerk in Augsburg, Bavaria.Template:Sfn Most's mother died of cholera when he was very young. Most was subjected to physical abuse by his stepmother and a schoolteacher;Template:Sfn his aversion to religion earned him more beatings at school.Template:Sfn To the end of his life Most was "a militant atheist with the zeal of a religious fanatic" who "knew more Scripture than many clergymen knew".Template:Sfn

Most developed frostbite on the left side of his face as a young child. For several years thereafter, flesh rotted and infection spread, with the primitive medicine of the day unable to treat the condition.Template:Sfn His condition worsened and Most was diagnosed with terminal cancer.Template:Sfn As a last-gasp measure a surgeon was called in. A two-inch section of his jawbone was removed, resulting in permanent disfigurement.Template:Sfn

At the age of twelve, Most organized a strike of students against a particularly hated teacher, resulting in his expulsion from school.Template:Sfn This ended Most's brief period of formal education, forcing him into the workforce as a youth. Most was apprenticed to a bookbinder, for whom he had to bind books from dawn until sunset, a condition which Most later likened to slavery.Template:Sfn At the age of 17 he became a journeyman bookbinder and plied his trade from town to town and job to job, working in 50 cities in 6 countries from 1863 to 1868.Template:Sfn In Vienna he was fired and placed on a blacklist for having staged a strike. Unemployable in his trade, he learned to make wooden boxes for hats, cigars, and matches, which he sold on the street until police brought an end to his trade for lacking a license.Template:Sfn

Political careerEdit

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Most aged 33, 1879

As the 1860s drew to a close, Most was won over to the ideas of international socialism, an emerging political movement in Germany and Austria. Most saw in the doctrines of Karl Marx and Ferdinand Lassalle a blueprint for a new egalitarian society and became a fervid supporter of Social Democracy, as the Marxist movement was known in the day.Template:Sfn

Most engaged himself as editor of socialist newspapers in Chemnitz and Vienna, both were suppressed by the authorities, he also worked as editor of the Berliner Freie Presse (Berlin Free Press). Most was a dedicated advocate of revolutionary socialism, sharing the views expressed by Wilhelm Liebknecht in an 1869 speech where he had said; "Socialism cannot be realized within the present state. Socialism must overturn the present state."Template:Sfn In 1873, Most wrote a summary of Marx's Das Kapital.<ref name="MECW45-474">Valeria Kunina and Velta Pospelova with Natalia Kalennikova (eds.), Karl Marx-Frederick Engels Collected Works: Volume 45: Marx and Engels, 1874–79. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1991; p. 474, fn. 154.</ref> At Liebknecht's request, Marx and Friedrich Engels made some corrections to Most's text for a second edition published in 1876, despite the fact that the pair did not believe the pamphlet represented a satisfactory summary of Marx's work.<ref name="MECW45-474" />

In the 1874 German federal election, Most was elected to represent the Chemnitz constituency as a Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany deputy in the Reichstag, in which he served until 1878.<ref>"Johann Most," Template:Webarchive Spartacus Schoolnet.</ref> Most was repeatedly arrested for his verbal attacks on patriotism, religion, ethics and for his gospel of terrorism, preached in prose and in many songs such as those in his Proletarier-Liederbuch (Proletarian Songbook). Some of his experiences in prison were recounted in the 1876 work, Die Bastille am Plötzensee: Blätter aus meinem Gefängniss-Tagebuch (The Bastille on Plötzensee: Pages from my Prison Diary).<ref name="EB1911">{{#if: |

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After advocating violent action, including the use of explosives, as a mechanism to bring about revolutionary change, Most was forced into exile by the government. He first traveled to France but was forced to leave at the end of 1878, settling in London instead. There he founded his own newspaper, Freiheit (Freedom), with the first issue coming off the press on January 4, 1879.<ref>Kunina and Pospelova with Kalennikova (eds.), Marx Engels Collected Works, vol. 45, p. 508, footnote 466.</ref> Convinced by his own experiences of the futility of parliamentary action, Most began to espouse the doctrine of anarchism, which led to his expulsion from the German Social Democratic Party in 1880.<ref>Natalia Kalennikova, "Johann Joseph Most," in Marx Engels Collected Works, vol. 45, p. 545.</ref> In March 1881, Most expressed his delight in the pages of the Freiheit over the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia and advocated its emulation; for this Most was imprisoned by British authorities for a year and a half.<ref name="EB1911" /><ref>A. D. Harvey "Research Note: Johann Most in Prison -Three Unpublished Petitions", in: Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Winter 1993), pp. 336–345. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546559308427232</ref>

Life in the United StatesEdit

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Most in his later years

Encouraged by news of labor struggles and industrial disputes in the United States, Most emigrated to the US upon his release from prison in 1882. He promptly began agitating in his adopted land among other German émigrés. Among his associates was August Spies, one of the anarchists hanged for conspiracy in the Haymarket Square bombing, in whose desk police found an 1884 letter from Most promising a shipment of "medicine," his code word for dynamite.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Most resumed the publication of the Freiheit in New York. He was imprisoned in 1886, again in 1887, and in 1902, the last time for two months for publishing after the assassination of President McKinley an editorial in which he argued that it was no crime to kill a ruler.<ref name="EB1911"/> He said: "Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice."<ref>Most, Johann, "Anarchist Communism"</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Most initially advocated traditional collectivist anarchism,<ref>Text of the 1883 Pittsburgh Proclamation</ref> but later embraced anarchist communism.<ref>Johann Most, "Anarchist Communism" (1889).</ref> Most was famous for stating the concept of the "propaganda of the deed" (Attentat): "The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion."<ref>Wendy McElroy, "Liberty on Violence".</ref>

Most is best known for a pamphlet published in 1885: The Science of Revolutionary Warfare, a how-to manual on the subject of bomb-making which earned the author the moniker "Dynamost". A gifted orator, Most propagated these ideas throughout Marxist and anarchist circles in the United States and attracted many adherents, most notably Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. Inspired by Most's theories of Attentat, Goldman and Berkman, enraged by the deaths of workers during the Homestead strike, put words into action with Berkman's attempted assassination of Homestead factory manager Henry Clay Frick in 1892. Berkman and Goldman were soon disillusioned as Most became one of Berkman's most outspoken critics. In Freiheit, Most attacked both Goldman and Berkman, implying Berkman's act was designed to arouse sympathy for Frick.<ref name="goldman">Template:Cite book</ref>

Goldman's biographer Alice Wexler suggests that Most's criticisms may have been inspired by jealousy of Berkman.<ref>Alice Wexler, Emma Goldman: An Intimate Life (New York: Pantheon Books, 1984) Template:ISBN</ref> Goldman was enraged, and demanded that Most prove his insinuations. When he refused to respond, she confronted him at next lecture.<ref name="goldman" /> After he refused to speak to her, she lashed him across the face with a horsewhip, broke the whip over her knee, then threw the pieces at him.<ref name="goldman" /> She later regretted her assault, confiding to a friend, "At the age of twenty-three, one does not reason." Most was in Cincinnati, Ohio, to give a speech when he fell ill. He was diagnosed with erysipelas. The doctors could do little for him, and he died a few days later.

Personal lifeEdit

His grandson was Boston Celtics radio play-by-play man Johnny Most.<ref>"The Anarchist Encyclopedia: A Gallery of Saints & Sinners" Recollection Used Books Template:Webarchive 23 August 2010</ref>

WorksEdit

Note: This list includes only titles published in German or English. Some of Most's writings were translated into Italian, Spanish, Russian, Yiddish, French, Polish, and other languages.

  • Neuestes Proletarier-Liederbuch von Verschiedenen Arbeiterdichtern (Latest Proletarian Songbook by Various Worker-Poets). Chemnitz: Druck und Verlag der Genossenschafts-Buchdruckerei, 1873.
  • Kapital und Arbeit: Ein Populärer Auszug aus "Das Kapital" von Karl Marx (Capital and Labor: A Popular Excerpt from "Capital" by Karl Marx). Chemnitz: G. Rübner, n.d. [1873]. Revised 2nd edition, 1876.
  • Die Pariser Commune vor den Berliner Gerichten: Eine Studie über Deutschpreussische Rechtszustände. (The Paris Commune in Front of Berlin Courts: A Study of German-Prussian Legal Conditions). Brunswick, Germany: Bracke Jr., 1875.
  • Die Bastille am Plötzensee: Blätter aus meinem Gefängniss-Tagebuch (The Bastille on Plötzensee: Pages from my Prison Diary). Brunswick, Germany: W. Bracke, 1876.
  • Der Kleinbürger und die Socialdemokratie: Ein Mahnwort an die Kleingewerbtreibenden (The Petty-Bourgeois and Social-Democracy: A Warning to Small Businessmen). Augsburg: Verlag der Volksbuchhandlung, 1876.
  • Gewerbe-Ordnung für das Deutsche Reich: Mit Erläuterung der für den Arbeiter wichtigsten Bestimmungen (The Industrial Code of the German Empire: With Commentary on the Most Important Provisions for the Worker). Leipzig: Verlag der Genossenschaftsbuchdruckerei, 1876.
  • Freizügigkeits-Gesetz, Impf-Gesetz, Lohnbeschlagnahme-Gesetz, Haftpflicht-Gesetz: Mit Erläuterung der für den Arbeiter wichtigsten Bestimmungen (The Law on Freedom of Movement, the Law on Vaccination, the Law on Wage Attachment, the Law on Liability: With Commentary on the Most Important Provisions for the Worker). Leipzig: Verlag der Genossenschaftsbuchdruckerei, 1876.
  • "Taktika" contra "Freiheit": Ein Wort zum Angriff und zur Abwehr ("Tactics" versus "Freedom": A Word on Attack and Defence). London: Freiheit, n.d. [c. 1881].
  • Revolutionäre Kriegswissenschaft: Eine Handbüchlein zur Anleitung Betreffend Gebrauches und Herstellung von Nitro-Glycerin, Dynamit, Schiessbaumwolle, Knallquecksilber, Bomben, Brandsätzen, Giften usw., usw. (The Science of Revolutionary Warfare: A Little Handbook of Instruction in the Use and Preparation of Nitroglycerine, Dynamite, Gun-Cotton, Fulminating Mercury, Bombs, Fuses, Poisons, Etc., Etc.). New York: Internationaler Zeitung-Verein, c. 1883.
  • Die Freie Gesellschaft: Eine Abhandlung über Principien und Taktik der Kommunistischen Anarchisten: Nebst Einem Polemischen Anhang (The Free Society: An Essay on the Principles and Tactics of the Communist Anarchists: With a Polemical Appendix). New York: self-published, 1884.
  • August Reinsdorf und die Propaganda der That (August Reinsdorf and Propaganda of the Deed). New York: self-published, 1885.
  • Acht Jahre hinter Schloss und Riegel. Skizzen aus dem Leben Johann Most's. (Eight years Under Lock and Key: Sketches from the Life of Johann Most). New York: self-published, 1886.
  • Die Hoelle von Blackwells Island (The Hell of Blackwells Island). New York: self-published, 1887.
  • An das Proletariat (To the Proletariat). New York: J. Müller, 1887.
  • Die Eigenthumsbestie (The Property Beast). New York: J. Müller, 1887. English: The Beast of Property: Total Annihilation Proposed as the Only Infallible Remedy: The Curse of the World which Defeats the People's Emancipation. New Haven, CT: International Workingmen's Ass'n, Group New Haven, n.d. [c. 1890].
  • Die Gottespest (The God Pestilence), New York: J. Müller, 1887. English: The Deistic Pestilence and Religious Plague of Man, n.d. [1880s]. Reissued as The God Pestilence.
  • The Accusation! A Speech Delivered by John Most, at Kramer's Hall, New York, on November 13, 1887, in Denunciation of the Judicial Butchery of the Chicago Anarchists: For Delivering Which, He Has Been Sentenced to Twelve Month's Imprisonment by Judge Cowing. London: International Publishing Co., n.d. [c. 1887].
  • Vive la Commune. New York: J. Müller, 1888.
  • Der Stimmkasten (The Ballot Box). New York: J. Müller, 1888.
  • The Social Monster: A Paper on Communism and Anarchism. New York: Bernhard and Schenck, 1890.
  • The Free Society: Tract on Communism and Anarchy. New York: J. Müller, 1891.
  • Zwischen Galgen und Zuchthaus (Between Gallows and Penitentiary). New York: J. Müller, 1892.
  • Anarchy Defended by Anarchists. With Emma Goldman. New York: Blakely Hall, 1896.
  • Down with the Anarchists! This is the War-Cry Raised by President Roosevelt and Echoed by the Congress of the United States. Now, Then, Hear the Other Side! The Anarchists will Take the Floor. Listen!. New York: John Most, n.d. [c. 1905].
  • Memoiren, Erlebtes, Erforschtes und Erdachtes (Memoirs: Experiences, Explorations, and Thoughts). In 4 volumes. New York: Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1903–1907.

ReferencesEdit

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Further readingEdit

  • Frank Harreck-Haase Der Agitator – Das Leben des Johann Most, 1. Band – Der Sozialist, 2017, Template:ISBN (in German)
  • Frank Harreck-Haase Der Agitator – Das Leben des Johann Most, 2. Band – Der Anarchist, 2019, Template:ISBN (in German)
  • Werner Hinze: Johann Most und sein Liederbuch. Warum der Philosoph der Bombe Lieder schrieb und ein Liederbuch herausgab. Tonsplitter Verlag, 2005, Template:ISBN (in German)
  • Botz, Gerhard, Brandstetter, Gerfried, Pollak, Michael: Im Schatten der Arbeiterbewegung, Zur Geschichte des Anarchismus in Österreich und Deutschland. Europaverlag Wien 1977 (in German)
  • Maag, Gerhard, "Vom Sozialistengesetz bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg", in: Arbeitskreis Geschichte der Nürtinger Arbeiterbewegung, Das andere Nürtingen. Ein heimatgeschichtlicher Beitrag zum 100. Geburtstag der Nürtinger SPD, hrsg. v. SPD-Ortsverein Nürtingen, Nürtingen 1989, S. 23–62 (in German)
  • Dieter Kühn (Hrsg.): Johann Most – ein Sozialist in Deutschland. München 1974, Template:ISBN. (Reihe Hanser 171) (in German)
  • Heiner M. Becker, Andreas G. Graf (Hrsg.): Johann Most – Ein unterschätzter Sozialdemokrat? Berlin 2006, Template:ISBN. (= Internationale wissenschaftliche Korrespondenz zur Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung, Jahrgang 41, Nr. 1–2, März 2005) (in German)
  • John Most: Memoiren: Erlebtes, Erforschtes und Erdachtes. Edition Kobaia, Hannover 1978. (Reprint der vierbändigen Originalausgabe in New York von 1903 bis 1907) (in German)
  • Rudolf Rocker: Johann Most. Das Leben eines Anarchisten. Berlin 1924; Nachtrag. Berlin 1925. (Reprint: Libertad Verlag, Berlin/Köln, Template:ISBN) (in German)
  • Winfried Schwarz: "Entstehung und Überlieferung". In: Kapital und Arbeit. Ein populärer Auszug aus "Das Kapital" von Karl Marx von Johann Most. Zweite verbesserte Auflage. Genossenschafts-Buchdruckerei Chemnitz, Chemnitz 1876. (Reprint: Wuppertal 1985, Template:ISBN, S. 9–67) (in German)
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