Johann Most: The Meaning of Radical

Johann Most aged 33, 1879

Johann Most was born February 5, 1846 in Augsburg, which was then located in the state of Bayern (Bavaria), soon to be part of the new nation of Germany. He was one of the best-known leftist writers and activists when he began adopting the politics of anarchism. Over the course of his political life, his political identity would alternate between the two theoretical cousins of socialism and anarchism, constantly searching for a synthesis that not only intensified his understanding of the world...