Late Feral House publisher Adam Parfrey carried on a five-year correspondence with Theodore Kaczynski at U.S. Penitentiary Max in Florence, Colorado, which resulted in the publication of his complete, authorized writings, including his correspondence with Parfrey and professor David Skrbina. Kaczynski’s book is an apocalyptic guide to revolutionary conduct in order to save life on earth from the destructive regress of technology. In his Introduction, Kaczynski boils down the four main points he makes in his writings:

1. Technological progress is carrying us to inevitable disaster.
2. Only the collapse of modern technological civilization can avert disaster.
3. The political left is technological society’s first line of defense against revolution.
4. What is needed is a new revolutionary movement, dedicated to the elimination of technological society, that will take measures to exclude all leftists, as well as the assorted neurotics, lazies, incompetents, charlatans, and persons deficient in self-control who are drawn to resistance movements in America today.

The ideas and views Kaczynski expressed before and after his capture raise crucial issues concerning the evolution and future of our society. This volume gives the reader access to an uncensored personal account of his anti-technology philosophy, which goes far beyond Unabomber pop culture mythology.

Feral House does not support or justify Kaczynski’s crimes, nor did the author receive royalties or compensation for this book. Feral House’s mission, and a foundation of the First Amendment, is to allow readers to discern the value of any document.

About the Authors

Theodore John Kaczynski (1942–2023), also known as the Unabomber, was a mathematician and social critic who carried out a campaign of mail bombings. An intellectual child prodigy, Kaczynski received an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and earned a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan. He died on June 10, 2023, at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, while serving eight consecutive life sentences.

Dr. David Skrbina, who wrote the introduction, teaches philosophy at the University of Michigan, Dearborn.

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Theodore Kaczynski saw violent collapse as the only way to bring down the techno-industrial system, and in more than a decade of mail bomb terror he killed three people and injured 23 others.

One does not need to support the actions that landed Kaczynski in supermax prison to see the value of his essays disabusing the notion of heroic technology while revealing the manner in which it is destroying the planet.

For the first time, readers will have an uncensored personal account of his anti-technology philosophy, including a corrected version of the notorious “Unabomber Manifesto,”Kaczynski’s critique of anarcho-primitivism, and essays regarding “The Coming Revolution.”

Dr. David Skrbina, who teaches philosophy at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, provides fascinating excerpts from his correspondence with the man he calls “a revolutionary for our times.” Theodore J. Kaczynski does not receive remuneration for this book.

“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 that does not dismiss his argument. … As difficult as it is for me to acknowledge, I saw some merit in the reasons in [Kaczynski’s writing].” — Bill Joy, founder of Sun Microsystems in “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us,” Wired magazine.