Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a. "The Unabomber"

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Technological Slavery
He that hath no sword, let him
sell his garment, and buy one.
—Luke 22:36
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Technological Slavery
The Collected Writings of
Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a. “The Unabomber”
Introduction by Dr. David Skrbina
Feral House
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Technological Slavery is a revised and enlarged version of the
book, Road to Revolution, published in an English edition of
400 copies, and also in a French edition in 2008 by Éditions
Xenia of Vevey Switzerland.
Technological Slavery © 2008 by Theodore J. Kaczynski
Introduction © 2010 by Dr. David Skrbina
All rights reserved.
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To the memory of Joy Richards,
with love.
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From the Publisher
Theodore J. Kaczynski has been convicted for illegally transporting, mailing,
and using bombs, as well as killing two people in California and one in New
Jersey. He is now serving a life sentence in the supermax prison in Florence,
Colorado.
Feral House has not published this book to justify the crimes committed by
Mr. Kaczynski. But we do feel that there is a great deal of legitimate thought
in this book, and the First Amendment allows readers to judge whether or
not this is the case.
Technophiles like Ray Kurzweil and Bill Joy also expressed their regard
for Theodore Kaczynski’s writing:
“Like many of my colleagues, I felt that I could easily have been the
Unabomber’s next target. He is clearly a Luddite, but simply saying this does
not dismiss his argument…. As difficult as it is for me to acknowledge, I
saw some merit in the reasoning in [Kaczynski’s writing]. I started showing
friends the Kaczynski quote from Ray Kurzweil’s The Age of Spiritual
Machines; I would hand them Kurzweil’s book, let them read the quote, and
then watch their reaction as they discovered who had written it.”
—Bill Joy, founder of Sun Microsystems,
in “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us,” Wired magazine
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
p.9
Author’s Note to the Second Edition.............................................
p.11
Foreword .....................................................................................
Introduction: A Revolutionary for Our Times,
p.16
by Dr. David Skrbina ..................................................................
1. p.36
Industrial Society and Its Future (ISAIF) ...................................
2. p.122
Postscript to the Manifesto .......................................................
3.
The Truth About Primitive Life:
p.126
A Critique of Anarcho-primitivism ..........................................
4. p.190
The System’s Neatest Trick ........................................................
5. p.206
The Coming Revolution ...........................................................
6. p.222
The Road to Revolution ............................................................
7. p.232
Morality and Revolution ...........................................................
8. p.246
Hit Where It Hurts ..................................................................
9. p.254
Letters to David Skrbina ..........................................................
10. p.350
Excerpts from Letters to a German ..........................................
11. p.368
Extract from Letter to A. O. .....................................................
p.371
Letter To Scientific American ......................................................
p.373
Letter to M. K. ..........................................................................
p.381
Letter to J. N. ............................................................................
12. p.392
An Interview with Ted ..............................................................
13.
United States of America v. Theodore John Kaczynski
p.410
(An Explanation of the Judicial Opinions) ...............................
p.415
Afterthoughts ...........................................................................
p.424
Bibliography .............................................................................
p.431
Index .........................................................................................
p.435
About the Authors ....................................................................
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AUTHOR’S NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION
This book was first published by Editions Xenia under the title The
Road to Revolution. Unfortunately, the Xenia edition was riddled with
errors, most of which were not my fault. In this second edition, if the
publisher has done his work properly, the errors have been corrected
and the book has been improved in other ways.
I want to make clear that I have no control over the cover
design of this book and no control over the way it is advertised and
promoted. I expect it to be advertised and promoted in ways that I
will find offensive. Moreover, I do not like the new title of the book.
Nevertheless, I have cooperated in the creation of this new edition
and consented to the change of title because I think it is important to
make the book available in its present corrected and improved form.
Ted Kaczynski
December 8, 2009
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