#title Ted Kaczynski's Letter Correspondence With Kevin Tucker
#author Ted Kaczynski & Kevin Tucker
#date Jan 15, 2023
#source [[https://twitter.com/gatheredremains/status/1614720212833533961/photo/1][twitter.com/gatheredremains #1]] and [[https://twitter.com/gatheredremains/status/1522050732853190656][#2]]
#lang en
#pubdate 2023-01-16T06:29:37
#authors Ted Kaczynski, Kevin Tucker
#topics Ted's Prison Correspondence
#notes The other letters will be in a anonymous box of correspondence in a special collections archive at [[https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-michigan-university-ted-k-archive][Michigan University]], which is free to access and so hopefully the correspondence will be added at some point. This letter is also relevant to Ted's first public letter breaking with anarcho-primitivists and Kevin's response: [[https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-kevin-tucker-ted-kaczynski-s-interview-with-a-turkish-primitivist][Ted Kaczynski's Interview with a Turkish Primitivist]]

** Tucker's Thoughts on Ted in 2023

In regards to my relationship to Ted Kaczynski, who I overtly do not support and religious [sic: religiously] point to as manipulative, I often say he was trying to groom me to lead his revolution.
<br>I’m not kidding or exaggerating, nor would I. Here it is in his writing.

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Why do you think I take the time to write you these long, long letters when I have so much on my hands that I can't keep up with it all? The reason is that I see you as potentially a very valuable revolutionary, and <em>Species Traitor</em> as potentially an important vehicle for propagation of the ideas on which a true revolutionary movement could be based -- <em>if only I can convince you of the need to make a clean break with leftist-reformist-pacifist-feminist-"rights" twit ideas.</em> Or rather with people who are attached to those ideas.
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And, to be honest, there were things about Ted as a person that I could relate to. But he dropped out of society in the peak of Maoist BS from a vortex of it.
Like any revolutionary, he’s willing to do whatever he believes it takes to meet his ends. He’s not to be trusted.

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** 2002

*** From Kevin - March 4

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*** From Ted - March 17

... I'm old enough to remember when mimeograph machines were in common use. I don't suppose you could find a memeograph machine today, unless maybe in antique store, but maybe there are other reproduction devices available that are relatively cheap.

...

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*** From Ted - November

...

Why do you think I take the time to write you these long, long letters when I have so much on my hands that I can't keep up with it all? The reason is that I see you as potentially a very valuable revolutionary, and <em>Species Traitor</em> as potentially an important vehicle for propagation of the ideas on which a true revolutionary movement could be based -- <em>if only I can convince you of the need to make a clean break with leftist-reformist-pacifist-feminist-"rights" twit ideas.</em> Or rather with people who are attached to those ideas.

...

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