An Anarchist Archive Analyzing the Life & Impact of Ted Kaczynski

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An Anarchist Archive Analyzing the Life & Impact of Ted Kaczynski

The Ted K Archive

This is a newly released huge archive on Ted Kaczynski.

The website works just like wikipedia, where anyone can submit new texts to the website and new edits of texts currently on the website.

We, everyone who has contributed, have archived:

  • A ton of primary source documents on Ted's life and ideas.
  • Documents analyzing the effect he had on the public's understanding of radical environmentalists, anarchists, terrorists, criminals, the mentally ill & simple mental neurodivergence.
  • Lots of great suggested reading on anarchism & other issues.

We, the librarians who bought the website domain, are pro-tech anarchists, but we just find his life story and impact really interesting.

So, we’re hoping the website can work to draw people in with similar politics to him and similar mental health issues frankly. Then for the cold hard reality of the primary source reading material, the epic-ness of the suggested reading material and the inviting discussion spaces connected to the website, to all have a deprogramming effect and be a mental health support.

For example, a popular text on the website for a while was simply a book on how to Unfuck Your Friendships and the discord has already played host to a discussion between people encouraging each other to think rationally about their depression diagnosis.

Which texts go up on the website is decided by a small collective of librarians, but all decisions will be put to a debate that anyone can join, in the live chat discussion spaces linked below.

Discussion Spaces

On the discord and matrix live chat spaces you’ll get:

  • Updates on when new texts go live.
  • Help with how to request rare documents from university archives.
  • The chance to co-ordinate with others on copy typing up handwritten documents onto the website.
  • The option to debate what new texts go up on the website.

Ethical steps taken by this project

We have a list of essays critiquing Ted’s politics & philosophy on the front page of the website.

There are long critiques and disclaimers added to some texts and we aim to add more.

When collecting together research on misanthropic groups and projects, we simply title the text ‘a text dump on ______’. That way for example we don’t dignify fictional stories terror groups weave when they write their own press releases and title them as communiqués.

Anyone can join the debate over which texts should go up on the website, obviously if you join just to troll or spam though, you will be removed.

A record will be kept of all texts that were rejected, whether for minor formatting reasons or deeply held political reasons.

A record will also be kept of controversial texts that were approved, where for example there was a sizable disagreement.

Ideally, in the future we will have popular sorting mechanisms directly under the main search box, such as a check box for 'only anarchist texts' that would exclude texts labelled 'not anarchist'.

Frequently asked questions

Why idolize Ted by naming the website after him?

People who are curious about his life and impact are just the main audience we hope to draw in with this website.

Since we think he's going to be remembered as a true crime curiosity anyways, we might as well capitalize on that and use it as a space to promote critiques of people with similar politics to him and help with similar mental health issues to him.

Was Ted K ever an anarchist?

He definitely identified as an anarchist in the 1990s at least. His first letter to the media, in June 1993, began with the words: "We are an anarchist group calling ourselves FC." A later communiqué from April 1995 repeated: "We call ourselves anarchists." The Manifesto discusses "our particular brand of anarchism".

How easy was the website to set up?

We just bought the domain then asked the good folks at Anarchist Libraries.net to set up the Amuse Wiki software. They did it all for us for free, had it running virtually right away and have helped answer any questions.

If you're curious to live chat to them, there's a channel on the Hexchat program under Libera.Chat channels #amusewiki and #anarchistlibrary.

If you'd like to set up your own anarchist library you can attempt to follow the steps described here and/or email anarchistlibraries-request@inventati.org

anon (not verified)
elon musk also identified as

elon musk also identified as an anarchist at one point. doesn't make it so.

anon (not verified)
the "ted k" archive

hey i think i'll start an archive in the name of a living anarchist and fill it with a ton of shitty texts that said anarchist definitely wouldn't want associated with his name*. oh and i think i'll hide some of the texts by said anarchist behind my patreon paywall. totally anarchist.

*are you really into that new-age self-help 'sexology' shit, ishkah? holy shit.

anon (not verified)
Attempting to dox the owner

Attempting to dox the owner of an illegal website = cool shit.

Desiring to make a few patreon dollars on a book that might have taken over a year to write and that people will read for entertainment = not anarchist scurge.

It is comical how calling the website 'the' ted k archive and including social anarchist texts has made it possible for teddites to relate to how pissed off the social anarchists were when ITS texts got added to 'the' anarchist library.

But yeah, go off, I would prefer to read Chomsky over Chomsky haters, but if the first person to have the energy to create an archive of Chomsky's writing happened to desire to load the site with Chomsky critiques and suggested reading Chomsky wouldn't like, I would still appreciate the work that went into archiving his writing.

antichumpskist (not verified)
take your pills

Seems u like making a lot of bold assessments on relations between hardly-related people. This is the internet, bro, where nothing is corporeal or even tangible, aside from the damage potentially cause to people IRL by crazies who got inspired by incoherent garbage such as but not limited to ITS texts.

"Attempting to dox the owner of an illegal website = cool shit."

Ok, bootlicker.

anon (not verified)
doxxxology

who's doxing who? your new website is full of doxes, theo. you'd know that if you'd read any of the texts you've frantically been copying and pasting to it this month. touch grass, bro. or get yourself a girl/boyfriend or something. sheesh.

anon (not verified)
Summing up convos on here and

Summing up convos on here and on raddle:

Suggested Reading critiquing Ted

Arguments for deleting: Ted is an anarchist POW, so he deserves not to be shit all over.

Counter argument: Even if I were to grant he's an anarchist POW, it wouldn't make the 'war' he fought any more justifiable, it would just mean some anarchist POWs deserve to be shit all over. Ted is an asshole who planted a bomb on a public airliner, took a knife to meet a romantic interest who turned him down, with the plan to disfigure her face for it, and slowly tortured animals to death for eating food in his cabin.

Texts by Daniel McGowen

Argument for deleting: Daniel is an ex anarchist POW, so he might deserve special treatment in being asked whether he wants his texts published.

Counter argument: There are countless witness testimonies of the time and place Daniel was radicalized also being a hotbed of interest in the Unabomber manifesto. So when using the website to learn about these events, it's useful to have writing by the ELF members themselves to look through in the same topic. He acknowledges himself he made some dumb decisions like burning down a tree farm due to thinking they were genetically modified trees when they weren't, and so hopes others can learn not to make the kind of mistakes he made, this website can attempt to in part serve that purpose.

Doxes of the eco-extremist writer/translator/publisher Abe Cabrera and his vivisectionist wife

Argument for deleting: No good is being achieved. And even if the husband did commit an unethical act, the wife can't be guilty of the crimes her husband committed.

Counter argument: When I feel like it I'll take screenshots of the sources, black out the names in the images, post them and replace the names in the text on the website with '[censored]'. The net good is being able to understand the history of a group who started out slavishly walking in Ted's ideological footsteps and how they became way, way more misanthropic and hopeless than him, plus their supporters and promoters. Update: I censored the doxes.

anon (not verified)
That's a confusing mess...

You censored the doxes, coz you didn't want the targets of the doxes to have more slavish followers? English ain't even my native language and I can write more legibly... so wtf is going on in your head? I can only suppose it must be a blend of crappy education and overuse of social media.

anon (not verified)
I censored any strongly

I censored any strongly identifying information, so you just see the reason the person doxed them, i.e. their critique of the person.

anon (not verified)
So what is wrong with

So what is wrong with releasing strongly-identifying information on eco-fascist scumbags? Show me any single cause for protecting them, besides you being yourself a CHUD and/or a glowie.

anon (not verified)
> So what is wrong with

> So what is wrong with releasing strongly-identifying information on eco-fascist scumbags?

doxxing is snitchy. it's a cowardly appeal to cops, bosses etc.

even if you're okay with being a coward dribbling behind a computer screen, doxxing is unreliable, and more often than not you end up ruining some random guy's life over an argument on the internet.

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