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TheAnarchistCookbookby William Powellwith a prefatory note onAnarchism Today byP. M. BergmanBARRICADE BOOKS, INC.P.O. BOX 1401SECAUCUS, N.J. 07096
Copyright 1971 by Lyle Stuart Inc.Copyright assigned 1989 to Barricade Books, Inc.Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 71-127797All rights reserved, including the rightto reproduce this book or anyportions thereof in any form.Queries regarding rights and permissionsshould be addressed to:Barricade Books, Inc.P.O. Box 1401Secaucus, NJ 07096Manufactured in the United States of America44 43 42 41
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ContentsA prefatory note on Anarchism todayPage9Foreword27Introduction29PageChapter Three: NATURAL, NONLETHAL,AND LETHAL WEAPONS77Natural weapons78Hand-to-hand combat7931Application of hand weapons81Pot31Hand weapons81Peyote31Knives81Psilocybin50Impromptu weapons83DMT53Brass knuckles and clubs85Bananas55Cattle prod85Amphetamines55Garrote85Amyl Nitrate56Guerrilla Training87Cough Syrup56Pistols and e58Semi-automatic and automatic weapons95Heroin58Shotguns98Nutmeg58Converting a shotgun into a grenade launcher98Paregoric58Silencers98Peanuts58How to build a silencer for a pistol100Hydrangea leaves59How to build a silencer for a submachine gun103Chapter One: DRUGSChapter Two: ELECTRONICS, SABOTAGE,AND SURVEILLANCEElectronic bugging devicesMicrophones616365Bows and arrows103Chemicals and gases104How to make tear gas in your basement104Defense and medical treatment for gases105Bumper beepers68Voice-activated tape recorders68How to make nitroglycerin113Electronic bug detection69How to make mercury fulminate114Electronic jamming70How to make blasting gelatin114Electronic scramblers70Formulas for the straight dynamite series114Mail order and retail electronics outlets70How to make chloride of azode115Broadcasting free radio71Formulas for ammonium nitrate compounds116Telephone and communications sabotageOther forms of sabotage7274Formulas for gelatin dynamites117How to make TNT118Chapter Four: EXPLOSIVES AND BOOBY TRAPS 111THE ANARCHIST COOKBOOK/5
6/CONTENTSPageHow to make tetryl118How to make picric acidFormulas for black powder119120Page.Bangalore torpedo148Molotov Cocktail148Homemade hand grenade148How to make smokeless powder121How to make an anti-personnel grenade149How to make nitrogen tri-iodide121Book trap149Formulas for different-colered smoke screens121Door-handle traps149Household substitutes122Loose flborboard trap149Safety precautions122Gate trap149Basic formulas for demolitions use125Chimney trap149Some important principles125Lamp trap150Tamping128Car trap150Placement of charges129Pipe trap150Bridge destruction130Pen trap150Detonators132Whistle trap and other handy devices150Release of pressure detonators135Cacodyal150Time delay devices135Road trap148Walk trap148Postscript153Bibliography159
31.32.33.34.35.36.37.38.39.PageMethods for growing marihuanaA mature marihuana plantHookahPeyoteA separatory funnelStropharia cubensis and Psilocybe mexicanaPrimary filtering of homemade DMTHeating DMT solution in water bathFinal collection of DMTTable of weightsEavesdropperThe byphoneThe carbon buttonCrystal MicrophoneDynamic MicrophoneButtonhole mike, subminiature mike, suction-cupwall listener, and the parabolic reflectorThe snakeThe electronic stethoscopeKeyhole for typical pre-1964 ChevieThe correct grip for holding a knifeCommon hatpinBeer-can hand weaponMarine Corps combat knifeAir Force survival kitThrowing knifeBrass knucklesKelly Come-AlongSap glovesDifferent types of billies and blackjacksMob-control stickGarroteSabotage against moving vehiclesBrowning high-power automatic pistolSmith & Wesson 9-mm. automatic pistolColt Commander automatic pistolSmith & Wesson combat masterpiece revolverCharter Arms undercover .38 specialColt official police revolverLlama Model VIII automatic .77.78.79.PageBoxer primerSpan holsterSpring holsterSpring shouldler holsterOpen-end quick-draw holsterBrowning high-power rifleH & R Model 301 ultra bolt-action carbineH & R Model 330 bolt-action rifleRemington bolt-action Model 788Martin 62 Levermatic RifleUniversal Enforcer automatic carbineArmalite Rr-180 carbineBrowning high-power automatic rifleEagle “Apache” carbineHarrington and Richardson 360 ultra-automaticJ & R 68 semi-automatic carbineRemington 742 WoodmasterPlainfield Machine Co. carbineUniversal 1000 auto-loading carbineWinchester 100 auto-loading carbineRuger .44 magnum carbineConverting a shotgun into a grenade launcherSilencer for pistolThompson submachine gun with silencerCross-section view of Thompson silencerM-3 submachine gun with silencerCrossbowEquipment set up for preparing tear gas,Darts for rapid injectionPolice projectilesThe crazed anarchistOpening explosivesNonelectrical blasting capSafety fuseCrimpersElectrical blasting capPriming dynamite electricallyLacing dynamiteLacing plastiqueTamping crater chargesTHE ANARCHIST 71281287
8/ILLUSTRATIONSFigure80. Using explosives to cut through materials81. Railroad Sabotage82. Type of placement and tamping to destroylarge buildings83. Stringer bridge84. Slab bridge85. T-beam bridge86. Concrete cantilever bridge87. Truss bridge88. Suspension bridge89. Tension-release detonator90. Military grenade91. Pull-trigger electric detonator92. Pressure-trigger device under driver’s seat93. Pressure-plate detonator94. Release of pressure detonator95. Tension-release 05.106.107.108.109.110.111.Nipple time bombIncendiary time bombMagnifying-glass bombAlarm-clock time bombRoad trapWalk trapBangalore torpedoMolotov CocktailHomemade grenadeBook trapDoor-handle trapsLoose floorboard trapPressure-release gate trapPipe trapsBall-point pen trapWhistle 147147
A prefatory note on Anarchism todayby P. M. BergmanWe live in an age of anarchy both abroad andat home.—President Richard M. NixonConfronted with a choice, the American peoplewould choose the policeman’s truncheon overthe Anarchist’s bomb.—Vice President Spiro T. AgnewThe revolutionary reaches beyond dissent tonihilism and anarchy.—Mayor John V. LindsayThis is a brutal book—sensual, rude, coarse, and cruel.However, it is timely and well-written, even witty. Profes sionally and painstakingly, all possible informative instruc tions for individual actions of destruction having a pre sumably social effect are detailed here.There is no political merit in publishing this book; it isnot a call to action. For the real Hippy and Yippy, espe cially for the rebellious student, it hardly contains anythingbasic that he does not already know. I believe that it isusually the “square guy” who wants to know what is goingon, though (or because) shocked and even tantalized bysuch subjects. More often than not it is the subscriber toReader’s Digest and Time who constitutes the literary mar ket for such boring commodities as, for example. GamesPeople Play.Still, the present book is an important reflection ofAmerican Anarchism. It has its historical precedent in asimilar “Cookbook” which was published in many editionsand sold openly around the turn of the century (by theAnarchist headquarters, at the time in New York City,167 William Street). Its title was Science of RevolutionaryWarfare—A Handbook of Instruction regarding the Useand Manufacture of Nitroglycerine, Dynamite, Gun-Cot ton, Fulminating Mercury, Bombs, Arsons, Poisons, etc.The book was written by the Anarchist J. H. Most, whowas the teacher of Emma Goldman.** Johann Joseph Most (1846-1906), a bookbinder by trade, wasone of the first Marxist deputies to the German Reichstag. He wrotethe first popularization of Capital. For his very radical publicationsagainst religion and patriotism, he was several times imprisoned.I believe it to be very characteristic that such a bookappeared only in this country. The same is true of the pres ent “Cookbook.” One might think this is because of theAmerican constitutional “freedom of speech.” But in othercountries even the clandestine literature does not, so far asI know, show any similarities to such a “Cookbook.” Blanqui’s famous “Instructions for Insurrection” concentrateson mass actions (even if initiated by elites) like the build ing of barricades—something which neither Most’s Sciencenor the present “Cookbook” gives any attention to. And this,in fact, expresses the basic difference—I think the only dif ference, even—between what is usually called Anarchismand revolutionary Marxism. I would like to go further andemphasize the specific nature of American Anarchism with out denying that this local form still is Anarchism.The word “Anarchism” as used in the present bookmight be somewhat misleading, even a misnomer. As oftenhappens, it is confused with “Nihilism”—a word whichWendell Phillips favorably used after it was introduced byTurgenjev in Fathers and Sons. It frequented Russian liter ature until the time of Artzybashev. The chapter on nar cotics, therefore, belongs to the present book. “Free Love”and in 1878 had to flee Germany. In England, because of hisextreme Anarchist views. Most broke with Marx and, after servingeighteen months at hard labor for advocating regicide, he emigratedin 1882 to the United States. Here he was, at the time of the Haymarket Square riot, considered the inspiration of radicalism through out the country, but later, during the Homestead strike. Most spokeout against Berkman’s assault on Henry Clay Frick. He was im prisoned for alleged sedition after the assassination of PresidentMcKinley.THE ANARCHIST COOKBOOK/9
10/THE ANARCHIST COOKBOOK(also religion) is missing here, for the good reason that itlost its sensational popularity in the Anarchist kitchen.Thus the popular synonymous use of Anarchism for Nihil ism is understandable: Dostoyevsky’s Netshayev was, afterall, an important collaborator of Bakunin.Nihilism is Anarchism, and Nihilism is revolutionary al though it is an aberration of Anarchism. Like all othermodern revolutionary tendencies, it is based philosophi cally on the Hegelian axiom: “Negation of Negation,” whichFriedrich Engels approvingly resolved with Goethe’swords: “All that exists is worth perishing”; or, as recentlyexpressed more simply in a note left in a bank burned byAnarchists in West Berlin: “Make kaputt what makes youkaputt.”Not only Anarchism, but any other real revolutionarymovement is dragged into some forms of Nihilism. Thisunderstandably occurs especially in the formative stages aswell as sometimes in the declining, depressive stages. Whocan deny the historical importance of the wrecking ofmachinery by the Luddites (though today we are so cleverthat we tell them what they should have done instead)?There is no doubt that the assassination of czars and Rus sian governors effected, if nothing else, different treatmentof political “criminals”—something which still has not beenachieved in the “free” United States. Without denying thetruly revolutionary character of the Palestinian comman dos, their newest weapon, hijacking, is surely an aberrationin their struggle for recognition. But the taking of hostagesis nothing new in revolutionary history. The Paris Com mune did it, as well as such partisans as the Titoists inYugoslavia, the Maquis in France, and, before them, theMax-Hoelz Brigade in Weimar Germany.“Putschismus,” as it is called in German, or ‘‘coup demain,” in French, is not limited to Anarchism. In the earlytwenties in Germany, attempts at bombing of public toiletsand of the victory memorial in Berlin, or the famous bomb ing of the cathedral in Sofia (1923), and many other such“actions” were tacitly approved and initiated by Commu nists, especially at the time of their decline.The main aspect of Anarchist actions, which surely donot conform with the civilized rules of politics and war fare (no government abides by them either, by the way)is to draw attention more to the existence of the movementthan to its ideas. The attempt to free prisoners by takinghostages, or to reduce mistreatment of prisoners by indi vidual attacks on officials and by bomb scares, will not createsympathy. However, it might lead to a “giving-in” by thegovernment, forcing it to recognize the existence of theillegal Anarchist movement. As a matter of fact, the gov ernment itself commits an illegal act by “giving-in” to theassault. Usually a government fares better by “giving in,”but, on the other hand, one of the criteria of a revolution ary situation is that a stage is reached where the govern ment feels it can no longer give in.Calling a policeman a “pig” seems silly and must antag onize the very people the revolutionaries want to win overor to neutralize. But the actual relationships of power aresuch that name-calling is the only weapon available at themoment. Besides, name-calling is an emotional outlet (andrevolutionaries also have emotions). “Pig” is an assault,no doubt—an assault against the uniform which, though afetish, is in itself a power, an assault against the wholepower structure. It is an assault—and a crime punishableby law. Here is the strong policeman, heavily armed, withthe entire physical and ideological power of the state be hind him, and he is attacked by a word—by a word only,but it is still an attack.What will the “pig” do? In the last analysis it is not upto the policeman, who, though having a loaded gun in hishand, has in fact no power; it is up to the state to give theanswer. It might not be “smart” of Bobby Seale to provokehis jail
THE ANARCHIST COOKBOOK (also religion) is missing here, for the good reason that it lost its onizesensational popularity in the Anarchist kitchen. Thus the popular synonymous use of Anarchism for Nihil ism is understandable: Dostoyevsky’s Netshayev was, after all, moment.an important collaborator of Bakunin. Nihilism . is. Anarchism, and Nihilism . is. revolutionary al though it is an .
