Anarchist Cookbook & Kurt Saxon

[Rev.Cambeul]

I can only speak for Australia in this instance: The JOG have not banned the Anarchist's Cookbook, so people are free to download, print or buy and talk about it freely. The catch is if you are known to have it, your home may be raided at any time by the JOG and the Anarchist's Cookbook will be waved infront of the press as a prime reason why you need to be locked up.

Apart from that, the Anarchist's Cookbook is a kiddy terrorist manual with a reputation it doesn't deserve. Amateurish but deadly pranks most fifteen year olds already know combined with out of date methods on how to get free access to telephones and the pre-world-wide internet (BBS).

All in all, the Anarchist's Cookbook is a propaganda coup for any JOG agent that captures a "White Supremacist" or any enemy of the week with it in his or her possession. So if you do read it, read it as Brother Jim did to find out what youthful but deadly pranks your local niggers can play on you so you know what to look out for, but never speak of it publicly and dispose of it ASAP!

@Cailen.

[Jim]

Kurt Saxon books are older Survivor books - some may said out of date.  Still lots of great ideas

[RaspStarb]

Kurt Saxon compiled his 4-volume Poor Man's James Bond series from legitimate, legal sources because he noticed some of the information in Anarchist Cookbook was flawed.  His information is culled from military manuals, chemical formularies, gunsmithing books, etc.

You can readily find these in .pdf form using a web search engine, I think there's a torrent, too, to get all four volumes at once.

[Jim]

Saxon also wrote granddad's wonderful  book of chemistry.  Great book - I think 

[Rev.WillWilliams]

Kurt Saxon books are older Survivor books - some may said out of date.  Still lots of great ideas

Creators aren't anarchists and should be very careful discussing anything that has the appearance of illegality as AC does.

That said, demolition experts who have read the Anarchist's Cookbook think about it along the lines of this reviewer at Amazon Books (if not quite as paranoid as he):
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I think it's a provocation, May 4, 2010
By G. E Farr "Grayal" (Tallahassee, FL)

This review is from: The Anarchist Cookbook (Paperback)
I spent 26 years in the military, mostly Rangers and Special Forces. I attended a sabotage course taught by the "other governmantal agency" and taught a sabotage class myself for members of a classified Special Forces detachment in Europe. I can assure you all that there's a reason why the military refers to "improvised" explosives and incendiaries. Many, if not most, are obscenely unstable even if the best formulas and proceedures are followed. My SF demolitions sergeants thought the "AC" recipes were weirdly, consistently,dangerously, wrong. We never, never did things the "AC" way. Suspiciously, I find no mention of ammonium nitrate fertilizer mixed with diesel fuel. Both ingredients are highly stable, even when properly combined, yet together constitute a highly effective explosive. Both are bought by the ton in thousands of commercial agriculture operations across the world and often stored with minimal security or accountability. That was well known even back then, but there's no mention of it. Just all this unnecessarily dangerous stuff. What's all that about, if not a provocation?

The weapons stuff was weird too. For instance, "AC" kept talking about pairs of weapons that were "great teams together." To me that suggests one of two things. Maybe weapons whose capabilities complemented each other. Say, a sniper rifle and a shotgun for close-in team protection. Or a pair of weapons that shared ammunition and possibly accessories, or even allowed cross-canibalization of parts. These suggested "great teams together" seem to have been paired to negate any such synergistic benefits.

I can't address the drug formulation. I can say that I thought the "theory" stuff was lame and low-brow. "The Wretched of the Earth" this ain't. And from a practice and tactics standpoint it isn't even a "Mini-mmanual for the Urban Geurilla".

So what's up with all this? I can't help but suspect that it was written and published to flush out wannabe terrorits and get them to do stupid, dangerous things, operate in ineffective ways, and generally self-destruct beforethey could actually develop into efective terrorits in effective organizations. Who knows? Maybe we can hear from the author. For sure the dreaded Weathermen did not cause as many casualties total as they inflicted upon themselves in one botched bomb-making operation. Wonder whose recipes they were using...
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If you want to own this book get the original, not the 2002 ripoff this reviewer describes:

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Garbage Re-Print, November 3, 2010
By Jeremy D. Stillwagner

This review is from: The Anarchist Cookbook (Paperback)
I am an avid collector of controversial books both for their historical and entertainment value. Don't waste your money on The Anarchist Cookbooks sold here on Amazon. While the picture(s) may show an original one, these are actually re-prints from 2002 and a lot of the original content has been removed or edited. I am very disappointed in the misleading sales tactic.

[ScottHarrison]

The anarchist cookbook has been known as being false and often dangerous. There are plenty of other educational publications available that provide factual, military standard guides to both production of improvised weapons and proper practice of guerrilla tactics.

That said, at this stage, studying racial theory (Creativity) and propagandising is much more important than knowing how to make explosives or homemade guns. Get a good grounding in Creativity and spread it to the masses, if we can't get the masses on board, any form of guerrilla uprising will be fruitless.