The Anarchist Cookbook

The Anarchist Cookbook was written by high school graduates William Powell in 1969 as a protest against the U.S. government and the Vietnam War. It contains instructions for the manufacture of explosives, drugs, a number that are now obsolete devices to exploit telecommunications vulnerabilities and texts to other controversial issues.

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The instructions described therein and chemical compounds are partially obsolete, faulty and dangerous. The value of this book lies in the documentation of the political diction of the 1960s, and his cult status as amusing tome.

The sources of the work were according to his information public libraries where he saw military and special forces manuals and compiled his book. It was published in 1970 without editorial revision by Lyle Stuart Inc..

The author has distanced himself from his work in 2009. He is now a married father and an Anglican Christian. Since he sold the rights to the text, it can not prevent its further spread. He also stressed that he had never belonged to a radical group. Rather, his intention is directed exclusively against the Vietnam War. Literally, he writes: " The central idea of the book was that violence is an acceptable form, to obtain political changes. I do not agree with that. "

The Anarchist Cookbook is legally available in the U.S., Switzerland and Germany.

On the Internet, many websites found with the name " Anarchist Cookbook ". This almost never contain the original and complete manuscript of William Powell, but works identically worded title that were published under various pseudonyms such as The Jolly Roger, Exodus, BHU or RFLAGG.

The possession of the Anarchist Cookbook in 2007 in Britain and 2010 used in the U.S. as evidence for the prosecution of terrorist activities. 2010, the FBI released his dossier on the Anarchist Cookbook.

Relationship to anarchism

Many anarchists deny a relationship of the book on the political philosophy of anarchism. The anarchist collective CrimethInc that the book Recipes for Disaster: . Published at Anarchist Cookbook, criticized the earlier work that it was " not compiled and published by anarchists, is not derived from anarchist practice and not intended to promote freedom and autonomy and oppressive power to question - and was barely a cookbook because the recipes are manifestly unreliable ".