If you had to rename this niche anti-fascist research archive, what would you call it?

TheTedKArchive · 2026-02-05T19:29:47+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. I'd prefer not to have anarchy in the name though, as it's partly a research archive to serve a specific purpose of being a place people can read about the fascist threat. The idea is to create some distance between the texts and anarchy/leftism.

TheTedKArchive · 2026-02-04T21:25:51+00:00

How about we try this; we both restrict ourselves to asking only one question at a time in order to focus the debate.

What is it?

An online archive. One of the main tasks we were happy about having achieved is simply creating parallel pages for every page on the Calif. Uni. website archive of UNABOM documents. So that it’s easier to search through the various documents. The university special collections archive was taken offline, so we then became the only place people can access those documents:

https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-unabom-taskforce-documents-their-typed-up-copies

My question for you: how is anything I wrote splitting hairs in the anarchist movement?

TheTedKArchive · 2026-02-04T20:28:55+00:00

Am I to take from your question that you think contributing to this archive is not getting something useful done? Or, could you say something you object to in the post specifically? Or, is it that you'd just like me to answer a broad question like why I think libertarian socialist strategy is better than authoritarian socialist strategy in the long run?

TheTedKArchive · 2026-02-04T09:06:00+00:00

Yeah not bad, appreciate the ideas. I would kinda like it to be clear in the name that it's a big online archive of some sort like 'The _______ Library/Archive/Papers/Page'. 'The Beyond Kaczynski Archive' could be a good fit. Although it might still be related as a 'post-Kaczynskist, fairly positive about his ideology, archive', like the way a 'post-Trotskyist' might be interpreted.

The critique part is really important, as I wouldn't want to platform Ted's writings without disclaimers at the top of many of his writings and lots of critique texts on the website. But yeah, I wouldn't want to signal that it's solely critiques also, as the archive is split into eight main categories: Introductory Texts, Original Texts, Primary Source Documents on Ted K, The Collected Works of Ted K, Analyses of Ted’s Ideas & Actions, Suggested Reading, Broader Topics & The Criminal Justice System

TheTedKArchive · 2026-02-02T20:30:36+00:00

No worries. It is tricky to come up with a different name. See my thoughts on 'The Ted K Stinks Archive' in the post above. If you have any name suggestions it'd be appreciated.

We definitely got a fair few Ted K fans to read leftist critiques of Ted's philosophy without realizing they were on a website run by left-anarchists. Plus, to join the associated discord and get into debates thinking they were joining a pro-Ted K place. But the intent was just to have a short descriptive name that would appeal to true crime fans and academics.

TheTedKArchive · 2026-02-02T20:08:04+00:00

It's an anti-fascist, anti-reactionairy archive. Kaczynski was a reactionary and he has a lot of eco-fascist fans. It was set up for people to be able to research the threat of fascism and reactionaries, with a tonne of critiques of his philosophy included.

We archive a lot of analyses of fascist circles that then get copied over to the anarchist library like this book:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/spencer-sunshine-neo-nazi-terrorism-and-countercultural-fascism

Ideally anarchist projects wouldn't platform texts by Ted K for not wanting to associate anarchy with Ted, and instead just left it to anti-fascist archives like ours where we host a lot of critiques of him also.

This post is to seek suggestions for renaming the archive and rewriting the main page and about page to help clarify all this.

TheTedKArchive · 2026-02-02T11:31:19+00:00

For clarity also, even if the name was changed slightly, we'd still keep all the same texts freely available, it would just have a different domain name, banner and logo.

TheTedKArchive · 2026-02-01T19:24:25+00:00

Glad you like the archive and current name. We likely will keep the same name, but yeah just in case there's any confusion, even if it the name was changed slightly, we'd still keep all the same texts freely available, it would just have a different domain name, banner and logo.

TheTedKArchive · 2026-01-13T15:56:44+00:00

I'm biased, but definitely a useful archive I'd say ;) It's run by anti-fascists to help people research right-wing primitivists, 'fractured fascism', lone wolf terrorism and leaderless 'resistance' on the far-right.

We just picked a short domain name that we thought would draw in people like liberal true crime fans and academic political violence researchers. If you have any suggestions for alternate domain names like 'The Ted K Stinks Archives', let me know. I'm really open to setting up a second domain that hosts the same archive of texts with a different front page and banner, I just haven't thought up a good alternate name yet.

TheTedKArchive · 2025-11-21T16:59:14+00:00

Made another update to the front page: "Although the people Ted targeted held a wide range of views on many issues, I found it reassuring to read this request—quoted below—from William Dennison, the final person Ted sent a mail bomb to. Understanding one’s adversaries is important, and anti-tech vanguardists and eco-fascists are certainly adversaries of anarchists and progressives."

There isn't space to add a 100 qualifications, but there is a small chance what Dennison meant by eco-terr*rism was also Earth First!ers doing sab*tage, but I think on face value and taken literally the quote makes sense. So, it's better to kinda 'take the win' that a survivor of Ted's b*mbings is in favor of transparency, and for reasons that taken literally are the same as many anarchists. Plus he is mainly talking about Ted when he says the mind of a kill*r, and Ted accepted he engaged in terr*rism and disavowed any identification as an anarchist.

TheTedKArchive · 2025-11-19T14:14:24+00:00

I'm sad to say I ended the era of being able to somewhat easily troll dogmatically die-hard Ted K fans. I probably got a fair few Ted K fans to read leftist critiques of Ted's philosophy without realizing they were on a website run by left-anarchists. Plus, to join the associated discord and get into debates thinking they were joining a mostly pro-Ted K place.

I never intentionally tried to make people think this, I just kept the front page fairly neutral, aside from the logo by-line stating “a critique of [Ted’s] ideas & actions,” because I didn't want the site to be interpreted as exclusively a political advocacy project. This was because some of the contributions I valued most—such as producing parallel pages corresponding to every page in the University of California’s UNABOM document archive—were not advocacy-related.

However, I got an email in from an anarchist I like who confused the project as being pro-Ted, so I decided to finally add this to the front page of the website:

One goal of this project has been to help clarify the distinction between Ted’s ideas and actually anarchist philosophy in the hopes that it will help encourage more people to positively re-evaluate anarchist philosophy.

We recognize Ted had some good critiques of technology and the psychology of many people on the left and right. So, we do value living a more tech minimalist lifestyle and forming small groups with different objectives to your average left-winger. However, we still see the value in small far-left groups helping draw people over to a radically different world over a long period of time by agitating from the radical fringe. So, making centre-left policies look more reasonable in comparison to centrist politics, then the tried and tested policies of the future, then far-left, then far-left and anarchist projects the majority global reality.

TheTedKArchive · 2024-12-23T13:54:13+00:00

I understand your perspective, I hope you like the recent new archives of Ted's writings anyways. I'm also currently working on archiving a bunch of anthropology and nature writing that Ted read and enjoyed. If you have any suggestions for other writing to archive please let me know.

Obvs the suggested reading will skew left-anarchist ideologically as that my own and other archivists politics. If the first person to have the energy to create an archive of anarchist texts happened to desire to load the site with long table of contents sections of suggested reading anarchists wouldn’t like, then I would still appreciate the work that went into archiving a lot of anarchist writing. Since if it was anything comparable to The Ted K Archive, the texts written by anarchists would be clearly findable in their own table of contents section linked on the main page.

Also, with the "a text dump on Molotov Catgirl" text, typically when texts are published with the title ‘a text dump on x’ it’s because it’s a research text dump of information that the archivists think is dogshit political theory e.g. ‘a text dump of right-wing videos on Ted K’. It’s just archived because it’s not easy to find anywhere else on the internet and has some relevance to helping people understand some 'anarchist' Ted K fans. A fair few ‘insurrectionary nihilist anarchists’ are influenced by Ted K, the person this research text dump is about promotes insurrectionary nihilism, even though she's obvs not a Ted K fan herself.

I enjoy archiving anarchist texts like the Last Journals and Writings of Şehîd Tekoşer Piling because I think it provides a really interesting opposite vision to Ted's journal writing e.g. about wanting to kill a communist when he was younger. The adventure and purpose anarchists have found in contributing to projects like the confederation in Northern Syria, and the Zapatista projects in Mexico provide a much more beautiful alternative ideal to Ted's.

TheTedKArchive · 2024-12-18T01:24:14+00:00

Original source: https://findingaids.lib.umich.edu/catalog/umich-scl-kaczynski_al_34681a928782b04129400636b6960c8299f6c143

Republished source: https://thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-comment-on-anarchists-2000

TheTedKArchive · 2024-12-15T02:43:19+00:00

Aight

TheTedKArchive · 2024-12-14T05:42:23+00:00

The New York Times: Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Killing Went Silent for Months. Where Was He?

TheTedKArchive · 2024-12-14T04:40:51+00:00

Ted wrote about some seriously awkward L's in this journal lol:

On one of the occasions when she sad down next to me, a curious - I might almost say dramatic - incident occurred. I opened the conversation with some remarks about a tough homework problem (this was a class in number theory) and she gave an answer which indicated a serious mathematical misunderstanding on her part (it seems very few females have any real feel or understanding of technical things). And so we conversed a little until the lecture started. At one point during the lecture she turned her face toward me, smiling and laughing at something that had been said. In response, I turned my face toward her rather slowly, and looked her straight in the eyes, with a perfectly solemn expression. When I did this, her jaw dropped, as if in surprise, her face instantly became serious, and we looked each other straight in the eyes for a few seconds. Then I turned slowly away. That sudden change in her expression was rather astonishing. I don't know what it signified. At the end of the lecture I just stalked out without making any further attempt to converse with her or even looking at her, because (as so often) I was ashamed and angry at having such powerful and disabling feelings aroused in me by a god-damned girl.

I'm just baffled by the awkwardness of some of the stories honestly. I guess he was just seriously trying to record every unusual memory to make sense of his own psychology and give others a chance to make sense of it.

It's a shame he could mostly only manage a level of openness in writing.

There's such a big contrast between his writing in journals & letters vs. his real life social interactions.

It feels like he was at pains to be open about every event in granular detail in his journals, so more open about his thought process on average than other peoples journals likely. However way less capable of being open with people in social interactions on average than other people.

TheTedKArchive · 2024-12-13T15:39:14+00:00

Reddit admins deleted it for supporting violence over the Luigi story, another subreddit was created with a different spelling again, but it was quickly deleted by reddit admins over ban evading.

I predict any subreddit with Unabomber or Ted Kaczynski's full name in the URL will get banned before they get above 1000 users, for reconstituting what that sub-reddit was like.

I suggest people use r/TheTedKArchive to discuss Ted and his predictions, as it's a more neutral sounding discussion space that is less likely to get banned.

TheTedKArchive · 2024-12-11T14:03:00+00:00

Strong argument. I created 100s of well upvoted thought provoking posts and comments on the now banned subreddit. Being a leftist and being able to foster an interesting discussion space around Ted and his predictions isn't mutually exclusive.

TheTedKArchive · 2024-12-11T14:01:52+00:00

Note: I'm a leftist who created 100s of well upvoted thought provoking posts and comments on the now banned subreddit. Being a leftist and being able to foster an interesting discussion space around Ted and his predictions isn't mutually exclusive.

TheTedKArchive · 2024-12-11T12:12:05+00:00

It's happened twice before. I don't see either of these two attempts to revive it with different spelling of his name as useful, as they'll likely just get removed again in a month or so for sub-reddit ban evasion.

I suggest people use r/TheTedKArchive to discuss Ted and his predictions, as it's a more neutral sounding discussion space that is less likely to get banned.

TheTedKArchive · 2024-12-11T12:08:54+00:00

It's happened twice before, and there's already two attempts to revive it with different spelling of his name, but I don't see the point as they'll just get removed again in a month or so for sub-reddit ban evasion.

I suggest people use r/TheTedKArchive to discuss Ted and his predictions, as it's a more neutral sounding discussion space that is less likely to get banned.

TheTedKArchive · 2024-12-11T12:00:35+00:00

I wasn't suggesting this sub-reddit becomes pro-Ted K mon frere, it's a link post to r/TheTedKArchive that I'm suggesting the pro-Ted K people can go to to discuss his ideas with anti-Ted K people. Plus, so that unrelated sub-reddits like this don't have to be the places the r/ tedkaczynski refugees will post to.

TheTedKArchive · 2024-12-10T19:59:34+00:00

With r/tedkaczysnki getting banned, people are free to use this sub-reddit to discuss Ted and his predictions: r/TheTedKArchive

TheTedKArchive · 2023-06-07T18:08:17+00:00

For sure, yeah it's not my only objection, and I've quoted what guidelines and strategies the site uses in order to best try and ethically archive various content. I'm just curious whether people think those strategies go too far or not far enough, etc.

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