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Veteran Pscho Hose Beast speaks out (and other PHBs respond)

The Unabomber has a lot to say in the magazine Green Anarchy,* available in chunks in Acrobat format here.

Reprinted below are the comments (collective, of course) of the magazine's editors. I think it pretty much speaks for itself in revealing the deep, raving psychosis that drives this kind of far-left thinking:

The GA Collective Respond [sic] To “Hit Where It Hurts” by Ted Kaczynski by Ted Kaczynski



Although the Green Anarchy editorial collective whole-heartedly supports Ted Kaczynski as an anarchist political prisoner, we had serious reservations about running this article due to Ted’s hostility towards feminism and his casual, off-hand dismisall of other liberation struggles which he chooses not to prioritize in his own life. Racism, sexism, homophobia and poverty are not “non-essential issues” to us, as they appear to be to Ted; compulsary heterosexuality, socially-enforced sexual conformity, racism, mysogyny, and class division are all products of a hierarchical, patriarchal power structure, and none of these problems can ever be fully solved within the context of civilization. It’s not “technology, above all else, which is responsible for the current condition of the world”, as Ted claims - it’s civilization / patriarchy - and if we want to dismantle the technological megamachine that is now devouring the biosphere, then we need to understand how the megamachine came to be, what led to it’s creation, and how it serves the interests of civilization’s rulers. We ultimately decided to print this article because Ted is a sharp strategic thinker, and because we feel strongly that more discussions like this need to be occuring in the pages of the anarchist press.

At the same time, we feel compelled to say that Ted’s analysis of patriarchy and civilization is severely lacking, and we take offence to his disparaging use of the queer-identified term “pink,” which is reminiscent of the fairly overt homophobia we have seen in previous pieces by Ted, like Ship Of Fools. Simply and solely removing technology as the total liberatory answer is a limited and mechanistic approach. We face a totality of domination which oppresses all life and we need to try to see the whole picture. For anti-authoritarian transformation, many struggles are necessary and need to be respected along with an awareness of the underlying connectedness.

Of course, there can be no doubt that technology is a major link on the chain of our oppression and it’s important that anarchists / anti-authoritarians purge themselves of the liberal belief that technology is “neutral.” There are five books that we can reccomend to our readers that will help get them started on the process of deconstructing their faith in and allegiance to technology.

They are: The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul (out-of-print, but readilly available in any good used bookstore), Technics and Human Development: The Myth Of The Machine Volume 1 by Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford, My Name Is Chellis & I’m In Recovery From Civilization by Chellis Glendinng, and Four Arguments For The Elimination Of Television by Jerry Mander, which focuses on the destructive impact of a very specific technology but which also offers an incredibly strong critique of technological mediation - which has a much wider applicability.



*Is there anyone still stupid enough to overlook the nihilistic and lunatic political goals of the radical Green movement? Note their recommended reading list.

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