See also:JOHN [See also:JOSEPH] MOST (1846-1906)
, See also:German-See also:American anarchist, was See also:born in See also:Augsburg, See also:Bavaria, on the 5th of See also:February 1846
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He was apprenticed to a bookbinder, worked at this See also:trade in See also:Germany, See also:Austria, See also:Italy and See also:Switzerland in 1863–1868, and then became a writer of Socialist See also:pamphlets and paragraphs, and editor of Socialist sheets in See also:Chemnitz and See also:Vienna, both suppressed by the authorities, and of the Freie Presse in See also:Berlin, being repeatedly arrested for his violent and cynical attacks on patriotism and conventional See also:religion and See also:ethics, and for his See also:gospel of terrorism, preached in See also:prose and in many songs such as those in his Proletarier-Liederbuch (5th ed., 1875)
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Some of his experiences in See also:gaol were recounted in See also:Die See also:Bastille am Plotzensee: Bliitter aus meinem Gefdngniss-Tagebuch (1876)
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In 1874–1878 he was a member of the German Reichstag, but he failed to be re-elected, was expelled by the Socialist organization, went to See also:France but was forced to leave in 1879, and then settled in See also:London
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There he founded the " red " See also:organ—it was printed in red—Die Freiheit, in which he expressed his delight in See also:June 1881 over the assassination of See also:Alexander II. of See also:Russia and for this was imprisoned for a See also:year and a See also:half
.
He then resumed the publication of Die Freiheit in New See also:York
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He was imprisoned in 1886, again in 1887, and in 1902, the last See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time for two months for See also:publishing after the assassination of See also:President See also:McKinley an editorial in which he argued that it was no See also:crime to kill a ruler
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He died in See also:Cincinnati on the 17th of See also:April 1906
.
See his Memoiren (New York, 1903)
.
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