The Collected Works of Ted Kaczynski

Book Compilations Order

Industrial Society and Its Future

1st Edition

• How Ted Expected it to be Published (Jun 1995)

• Handwritten Draft found in Ted's Cabin (prior to June 1995)

• Original Copy Sent to The Post (Jun 1995)

• Washington Post Version (Sep 1995)

2nd Edition

• Industrial Society and It’s Future

• Postscript (2007)

• Afterthoughts (2010)

3rd Edition

• Industrial Society and It’s Future

• Further Comments (2022)

Wilderness Front Version

• Preface

• Industrial Society and It’s Future (2nd Edition)

Technological Slavery

1st Edition

• Foreword

• Industrial Society and Its Future

• Postscript to the Manifesto

• The Truth About Primitive Life

• The System’s Neatest Trick

• The Coming Revolution

• The Road to Revolution

• Morality and Revolution

• Hit where it hurts

• Extracts from Letters to David Skrbina

• Ted Kaczynski's Letter to an Anonymous German

• Ted Kaczynski's Letter to A.O.

• Letter to Scientific American

• Ted Kaczynski letter to M.K.

• Letter to J.N.

• Joy Richards Interview with Ted Kaczynski

• Explanation of the Judicial Opinions

• Why the Future Needs Ted Kaczynski by Dr.Patrick Barriot

• A Revolutionary for Our Times by David Skrbina

• Bibliography

2nd Edition

• Author's Note to the Second Edition

• A Revolutionary for Our Times by David Skrbina

• Industrial Society and Its Future

• Postscript to the Manifesto

• The Truth About Primitive Life

• The System’s Neatest Trick

• The Coming Revolution

• The Road to Revolution

• Morality and Revolution

• Hit where it hurts

• Extracts from Letters to David Skrbina

• Ted Kaczynski's Letter to an Anonymous German

• Ted Kaczynski's Letter to A.O.

• Letter to Scientific American

• Ted Kaczynski letter to M.K.

• Letter to J.N.

• Joy Richards Interview with Ted Kaczynski

• Explanation of the Judicial Opinions

• Afterthoughts

• Bibliography

3rd Edition

• Note on the Fourth Edition

• Letter to Scientific American

• Industrial Society and Its Future

• Postscript to the Manifesto

• The System’s Neatest Trick

• Extracts from Letters to David Skrbina

• Ted Kaczynski's Letter to an Anonymous German

• Ted Kaczynski's Letter to A.O.

• Letter to J.N.

• Ted Kaczynski letter to M.K.

• Letter to Dr. P.B. on the Motivations of Scientists

• On Learned Helplessness

• Human Will Versus the "Objective" Forces of History

• Why Democracy is the Dominant Political Form of the Modern World

• Sarmiento and the Gauchos

• Disposal of Radioactive Waste

• Nations That Made a Conscious Decision to Adopt Democratic Government Usually Did So Because...

• Loyalty to the System Versus Loyalty to Traditional Social Groups

• Appendix Eight: In Support of the Letter to Dr. P.B.

• Bibliography

4th Edition

Volume 1

• Note on the Fourth Edition

• Letter to Scientific American

• Industrial Society and Its Future

• Postscript to the Manifesto

• The System’s Neatest Trick

• Ted Kaczynski's Letter Correspondence With David Skrbina

• Ted Kaczynski's Letter to an Anonymous German

• Ted Kaczynski's Letter to A.O.

• Letter to J.N.

• Ted Kaczynski letter to M.K.

• Letter to Dr. P.B. on the Motivations of Scientists

• On Learned Helplessness

• Human Will Versus the "Objective" Forces of History

• Why Democracy is the Dominant Political Form of the Modern World

• Sarmiento and the Gauchos

• Disposal of Radioactive Waste

• Nations That Made a Conscious Decision to Adopt Democratic Government Usually Did So Because...

• Loyalty to the System Versus Loyalty to Traditional Social Groups

• Appendix Eight: In Support of the Letter to Dr. P.B.

• Bibliography

Volume 2

Coming soon. The publisher says that the book will at least includes these 5 texts:

• Commentaries on Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals

• Is There Such a Thing as Wilderness?

• Principles of Organization and Leadership

• The Truth About Primitive Life

• Morality and Revolution

It's possible the book will also contain older texts such as:

• The Coming Revolution

• The Road to Revolution

• Hit where it hurts

• Joy Richards Interview with Ted Kaczynski

• Explanation of the Judicial Opinions

Anti-Tech Revolution

1st Edition

• Preface

• The Development of a Society Can Never Be Subject to Rational Human Control

• Why the Technological System Will Destroy Itself

• How to Transform a Society: Errors to Avoid

• Strategic Guidelines for an Anti-Tech Movement

• In Support of Chapter One

• In Support of Chapter Two

• Stay on Target

• The Long-Term Outcome of Geo-Engineering

• List of Works Cited

2nd Edition

• Preface to the Second Edition

• The Development of a Society Can Never Be Subject to Rational Human Control

• Why the Technological System Will Destroy Itself

• How to Transform a Society: Errors to Avoid

• Strategic Guidelines for an Anti-Tech Movement

• In Support of Chapter One

• In Support of Chapter Two

• Stay on Target

• The Long-Term Outcome of Geo-Engineering

• On Thurston's View of Stalin's Terror & State Terrorism in General

• The Teachings of Jesus Christ and Their Effect on Society

• List of Works Cited

Chronological Order

Pre-Manifesto

• Neanderthal Man (~1955)

• Ted Kaczynski's 1958 Autobiography

• Ted Kaczynski's 1959 Autobiography

• The Groovy Revolution (Dec 13 1969)

• Letter to the editor on gun-control, automobile laws, and compulsory psychological screening (Dec 14 1969)

• We must sit here and take it (Dec 17, 1969)

• The future may not be that rosy (Jan 10 1970)

• The Saturday Review Book Forum (Jan 10, 1970)

• Snowmobiles only provide short-term thrills (Jan 17, 1970)

• Letter to Editor on the Population Problem (Jan 18 1970)

• Frontier Freedoms and Space Age Cities (Feb 28 1970)

• Cities are boring people to death (March 23, 1970)

• Liberty Is In Danger (April 25, 1970)

• Some politicians want to turn people into robots (May 2, 1970)

• The Wave of the Future (Jun 13, 1970)

• Why you Canadians should support population control (Jun 30, 1970)

• Stick to your traditional values (Aug 14 1970)

• Letter to the Editor on Scientific Development (Nov 21 1970)

• The hypocrisy of oil propaganda (Jan 26 1971)

• Progress Versus Liberty (1971)

• How I Blew Up Harold Snilly (~1976)

• The Government Should Stop Supporting Research (Jun 1977)

• Try Snowshoes for a Change (Feb 21 1978)

• An Insulting Limerick (1978)

• An early attempt to argue for hunter-gatherer societies or human extermination (May 8 1979)

• Progress Versus Wilderness (1979)

• Ted Kaczynski's 1979 Autobiography

• How people will replace machines (Jan 26 1980)

• The Flies (Oct 3 1982)

• Our First Cigarette (Sep 7 1983)

• Reflections on Purposeful Work (1983)

• Juan Darien (Oct 3 1984)

• To a Nose (Oct 3 1984)

• The Wild Colt (Sep 9 1985)

• Ravens Make Interesting Neighbors (Nov 1985)

• The Fort of Tacquil (Dec 1985)

• A Personal Review of Karl Garrison’s ‘Psychology of Adolescence’ (~1985)

• A Personal Review of Martin Seligman's book 'Helplessness' (Feb 22 1988)

• Ted Kaczynski's 1988 Autobiography (May 1988)

• Warning to Berry Pickers and Mushroom Hunters! (Aug 6 1989)

Industrial Society and Its Future

• Handwritten Draft found in Ted's Cabin (prior to June 1995)

• Original Copy Sent to The Post (Jun 1995)

• How Ted Expected it to be Published (Jun 1995)

• Ted's Book Version (Jun 1995)

• Washington Post Version (Sep 1995)

Post-Manifesto

• A Scientific American Article Theorizing a Tech Induced Apocalypse & The Unabomber's Response (1995)

• Rethinking Environmental-First Nations Relationships and Responses (1995)

• A Shift Towards Hopefulness (Jan 23 1996)

Post-Arrest

• Apology to Women (Oct 2 1996)

• A Statement by Ted K on his Trial Verdict (Jan 26 1998)

• Statements made during Ted Kaczynski's Sentencing (May 4 1998)

• Ted's note for the Earth First! Journal advocating a split (Nov 29 1998)

• Theresa Kintzs' Interview with Ted Kaczynski (~Feb 1999)

• Truth versus Lies (May 10 1999)

• I do not find it difficult to survive here (Jun 1999)

• Time Magazine's Interview with Ted Kaczynski (~Sep 1999)

• Answer to Some Comments Made in Green Anarchist (1999)

• Ship of Fools (1999)

• Ted Kaczynski’s Comments on Timothy McVeigh (Apr 25 2000)

• Morality and Revolution (1st Edition) (~2000)

• Joy Richards Interview with Ted Kaczynski (Jan 2001)

• Morality and Revolution (2nd Edition) (Jun 2000)

• Ted Kaczynski's Review of 'A History of Modern Psychology' (Apr 17 2001)

• Marcos Loves Modernization (Fall 2001)

• When Non-Violence Is Suicide (2001)

• Letter to J.N. (2001)

• Hit where it hurts (2002)

• Extracts from Letters to David Skrbina (2003—2005)

• Survival of the Smallest & Responses (Mar 10 2005)

• Ted Kaczynski's Interview with a Turkish Primitivist (2005)

• The Myth of Erk (2005)

• Explanation of the Judicial Opinions (May 4 2007)

Technological Slavery - 1st Edition

• In Summary (Oct 20 2008)

• The Truth About Primitive Life (Oct 20 2008)

• The Coming Revolution (Oct 20 2008)

• The System’s Neatest Trick (Oct 20 2008)

• Notes on his book Technological Slavery (Oct 20 2008)

• The Road to Revolution (Oct 20 2008)

• Postscript to the Manifesto (Oct 20 2008)

• Ted Kaczynski's Letter to A.O. (Oct 20 2008)

• Ted Kaczynski's Letter to an Anonymous German (Oct 20 2008)

• Ted Kaczynski letter to M.K. (Oct 20 2008)

Technological Slavery - 2nd Edition

• Afterthoughts to Technological Slavery (14 Oct 2010)

2010-2016

• A Comment on the Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico (Jun 10 2010)

• Ted Kaczynski’s Interview with the John Jay Sentinel (Apr 2011)

• Why the Technological System Will Destroy Itself (Jul 21 2011)

• A Halloween Story (Dec 11 2011)

• Commentaries on Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals (Jan 29 2012)

• Ted Kaczynski on Individualists Tending Toward Savagery (Sept 2 2012)

• Notes From Ted & Ultimo on Fake Letters (Jun 10 2016)

• Ted Kaczynski's Short Note Honoring Julie Ault (Nov 16 2016)

Anti-Tech Revolution - 1st Edition

• The techies' wet-dreams (Aug 31 2016)

• The Long-Term Outcome of Geo-Engineering (Aug 31 2016)

• Stay on Target (Aug 31 2016)

• The Teachings of Jesus Christ and Their Effect on Society (Aug 31 2016)

2020

• Ecofascism: An Aberrant Branch of Leftism (Sep 29 2020)

Anti-Tech Revolution - 2nd Edition

• On Thurston's View of Stalin's Terror & State Terrorism in General (2020)

• The Teachings of Jesus Christ and Their Effect on Society (2020)

Technological Slavery - 4th Edition

• In Support of the Letter to Dr. P.B. (Jul 18 2022)

• On Learned Helplessness (Jul 18 2022)

• Nations That Made a Conscious Decision to Adopt Democratic Government Usually Did So Because... (Jul 18 2022)

• Why Democracy is the Dominant Political Form of the Modern World (Jul 18 2022)

• Sarmiento and the Gauchos (Jul 18 2022)

• Letter to Dr. P.B. on the Motivations of Scientists (Jul 18 2022)

• Disposal of Radioactive Waste (Jul 18 2022)

• Loyalty to the System Versus Loyalty to Traditional Social Groups (Jul 18 2022)

• Ted's Updated Notes on His Manifesto (Jul 18 2022)

• Human Will Versus the "Objective" Forces of History (Jul 18 2022)

Compilations

• Technological Slavery

• Anti-Tech Revolution

• He tried to save us

• Ted Kaczynski's Low-Tech Lifestyle

• Programme for the 2016 Benefit Event Honoring Julie Ault

Unknown Date

• Dandelion Greens

• The Littering Ape

• On the probability of robots becoming more creative than humans

• Three Worthy Artisans

• The Adventures of H. Bascomb Thurgood

• On Privacy

• On Population Control

• On the Environmental Crisis and Individualism

• On Technology, Population, and Society

• In Defense of Violence

• Notes on Montana wilderness

• Is There Such a Thing as Wilderness?

• Independent Study in Introspective Psychology

• Principles of Organization and Leadership

• A Critique of Jared Diamond's Collapse

• Some Suggestions Concerning Strategy

• A Fantasy

• If Earth First Had Been Around Sixty Years Ago

• Comment on anarchists

• Partial Translation of Die Bambuti by Paul Schebesta

Categorical Order

Life Close to the Wild

• Ted Kaczynski's Low-Tech Lifestyle

• Try Snowshoes for a Change

• Ravens Make Interesting Neighbors

• Dandelion Greens

• Flower sketches

• Coprinus Comatus (Shaggy mane)

• Notes on Montana wilderness

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Political Books

Industrial Society and Its Future

• Handwritten Draft found in Ted's Cabin

• Original Copy Sent to The Post

• How Ted Expected it to be Published

• Washington Post Version

• Ted's Book Version

Technological Slavery

The full book was taken down after a threatening email from the publisher, but you can see the indexes at the top of this page and some of the component texts whose copyright ownership are in doubt:

• First Edition

• Second Edition

• Third Edition

• Fourth Edition

Anti-Tech Revolution

The same note for the book above applies to this book:

• First Edition

• Second Edition

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Autobiographical Sketches

• Ted Kaczynski's 1958 Autobiography

• Ted Kaczynski's 1959 Autobiography

• Ted Kaczynski's 1979 Autobiography

• Ted Kaczynski's 1988 Autobiography

• Truth versus Lies

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Pamphlets

• He tried to save us

• Programme for the 2016 Benefit Event Honoring Julie Ault

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Essays

Autobiographical

• How I Blew Up Harold Snilly

• A Shift Towards Hopefulness

• Explanation of the Judicial Opinions

• Apology to Women

• Ted Kaczynski’s Comments on Timothy McVeigh

• In Support of the Letter to Dr. P.B.

• Warning to Berry Pickers and Mushroom Hunters!

Philosophy

• Morality and Revolution (1st Edition)

• Morality and Revolution (2nd Edition)

• Updates to the essay 'Morality & Revolution'

• Human Will Versus the "Objective" Forces of History

• Is There Such a Thing as Wilderness?

Psychology

• A Personal Review of Karl Garrison’s ‘Psychology of Adolescence’

• A Personal Review of Martin Seligman's book 'Helplessness'

• On Learned Helplessness

• Reflections on Purposeful Work

• Ted Kaczynski's Review of 'A History of Modern Psychology'

• Independent Study in Introspective Psychology

History

• Neanderthal Man

• The Teachings of Jesus Christ and Their Effect on Society

• Nations That Made a Conscious Decision to Adopt Democratic Government Usually Did So Because...

• Why Democracy is the Dominant Political Form of the Modern World

• Sarmiento and the Gauchos

• On Thurston's View of Stalin's Terror & State Terrorism in General

Anthropology

• Neanderthal Man

• The Littering Ape

Politics

Various Issues

• In Summary

• An early attempt to argue for hunter-gatherer societies or human extermination

• Progress Versus Liberty

• Progress Versus Wilderness

• Hit where it hurts

• A Comment on the Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico

• Stay on Target

• The Coming Revolution

• The Long-Term Outcome of Geo-Engineering

• The System’s Neatest Trick

• The Road to Revolution

• The techies' wet-dreams

• Letter to Dr. P.B. on the Motivations of Scientists

• Why Democracy is the Dominant Political Form of the Modern World

• Sarmiento and the Gauchos

• Disposal of Radioactive Waste

• Nations That Make a Conscious Decision to Adopt Democratic Government Usually Did So Because They Believed That Democracy Would Help Them to Achieve Economic and Technological Success

• On Thurston's View of Stalin's Terror & State Terrorism in General

• The Teachings of Jesus Christ and Their Effect on Society

• A Scientific American Article Theorizing a Tech Induced Apocalypse & The Unabomber's Response

• Commentaries on Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals

• Why the Technological System Will Destroy Itself

• The Wave of the Future

• The Government Should Stop Supporting Research

• Letter to Editor on the Population Problem

• Frontier Freedoms and Space Age Cities

• Letter to the Editor on Scientific Development

• The Groovy Revolution

• On the probability of robots becoming more creative than humans

• Letter to the editor on gun-control, automobile laws, and compulsory psychological screening

• Principles of Organization and Leadership

• A Critique of Jared Diamond's Collapse

• Some Suggestions Concerning Strategy

• A Fantasy

Updated thoughts on his manifesto

• Postscript to the Manifesto

• Afterthoughts to Technological Slavery

• Loyalty to the System Versus Loyalty to Traditional Social Groups

Violence

• When Non-Violence Is Suicide

• In Defense of Violence

Critique of some leftists

• The Truth About Primitive Life

• Answer to Some Comments Made in Green Anarchist

• Marcos Loves Modernization

• Rethinking Environmental-First Nations Relationships and Responses

• If Earth First Had Been Around Sixty Years Ago..., Superseded version, per TK annotation

• Comment on anarchists

Critique of some rightists

• Ecofascism: An Aberrant Branch of Leftism

• Ted Kaczynski on Individualists Tending Toward Savagery

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Published Correspondences

• A Scientific American Article Theorizing a Tech Induced Apocalypse & The Unabomber's Response (1995)

• Extract from Letter to J.N. (April 29, 2001)

• Excerpts from Letter to M.K. (October 4, 2003)

• Extracts from Letters to David Skrbina (2004-2005)

• Extract from a Letter to A.O. (June 30, 2004)

• Excerpts from Letters to a German (2006)

• Letter to Dr. P.B. on the Motivations of Scientists (May 2009)

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Newspaper & Magazine Articles & Letters to the Editor

Published

• We must sit here and take it - Dec 17, 1969

• The future may not be that rosy - Jan 10, 1970

• The Saturday Review Book Forum - Jan 10, 1970

• Snowmobiles only provide short-term thrills - Jan 17, 1970

• Letter to the Saturday Evening Review - Feb 28, 1970

• Cities are boring people to death - March 23, 1970

• Liberty Is In Danger - April 25, 1970

• Some politicians want to turn people into robots - May 2, 1970

• Controlling the weather sometimes will lead to people choosing less diversity in weather in the long-term - June 13, 1970

• Why you Canadians should support population control - June 30, 1970

• Stick to your traditional values - August 14, 1970

• The hypocrisy of oil propaganda - Jan 26, 1971

• How people will replace machines - Jan 26, 1980

• Survival of the Smallest & Responses

Unpublished

• On Privacy

• On Population Control

• On the Environmental Crisis and Individualism

• On Gun Control

• On Technology, Population, and Society

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Notes

• Ted's Updated Notes on His Manifesto

• Notes on his book Technological Slavery

• Notes From Ted & Ultimo on Fake Letters

• A Statement by Ted K on his Trial Verdict

• I do not find it difficult to survive here

• Ted's note for the Earth First! Journal advocating a split

• Ted Kaczynski's Short Note Honoring Julie Ault

  • Programme for the 2016 Benefit Event Honoring Julie Ault

• An Insulting Limerick

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Fictional Stories

• Ship of Fools

• A Halloween Story

• Three Worthy Artisans

• The Adventures of H. Bascomb Thurgood

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Translations

• Our First Cigarette

• Juan Darien

• To a Nose

• The Wild Colt

• The Fort of Tacquil

• The Flies

• The Myth of Erk

• Partial Translation of Die Bambuti by Paul Schebesta

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Drawings

• Ted Kaczynski's Drawing Parodying Nazism

• Untitled Drawing by Ted Kaczynski

• Ted Kaczynski's Parody of an Old Advertisement

• A Description of an Erotic Drawing

• Techno-Industrial Society Analogised as a Hydra

• Diagram of symptoms resulting from disruption of the power process

• Ted Kaczynski's Self-Portrait

• Flower sketches

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Musical Compositions

• March #4

• March #5

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Cryptography

• Decoding Procedure

• Notebook X

• Fully Coded Notebooks of Crimes

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Mathematical Work

• The Mathematical Work of Ted Kaczynski

• Another Proof of Wedderburn’s Theorem

• Distributivity and (−1)x = −x (Advanced Problem 5210)

• Distributivity and (−1)x = −x (Advanced Problem 5210, with Solution by Bilyeu, R.G.)

• Boundary Functions for Functions Defined in a Disk

• On a Boundary Property of Continuous Functions

• PhD thesis at University of Michigan

• Note on a Problem of Alan Sutcliffe

• Boundary Functions for Bounded Harmonic Functions

• Boundary functions and sets of curvilinear convergence for continuous functions

• The Set of Curvilinear Convergence…

• Problem 787

• A Match Stick Problem (Problem 787, with Solutions by Gibbs, R.A. and Breisch, R.L.

• Four-Digit Numbers that Reverse Their Digits When Multiplied

• Handwritten Math equations and procedures

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Crafting Work

• A hand-crafted wooden cylinder

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Gardening Work

• Wild Carrot Big Yellow 1992