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Title: Right-Wing Anarchism
Author: Fabian Tompsett
Date: Fall, 1996
Language: en
Topics: Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, anti-civ, Fifth Estate, letters 
Source: Fifth Estate #348, Fall, 1996, page 26
Notes: Scanned from original.

Fabian Tompsett

Right-Wing Anarchism

Dear Fifth Estate:

I sent a copy of Green Apocalypse to you before, but for some reason it

was returned. I thought something might be up with you, so I was

especially pleased to see issue #347.

As you can see from GA, we’ve been having some problems with Green

Anarchist. Their letter in your Spring 1996 issue is pretty much par for

the course. Like the Unabomber, they offer a rightwing version of

anarchism, and are now latching on to primitivism. Anyone who criticises

them is accused of “siding with state assets” when they’re not accused

of actually being state assets.

I don’t understand why anyone except right-wing bozos would give the

Unabomber the time of day. We’ve been active in the alternative

publishing scene for a couple of decades publishing revolutionary news

and views. We have been part of a world-wide network which has been

generating debate and reflection on All sorts of struggles across the

world.

Rather than taking part in this unglamorous work, the Unabomber is so

infatuated with his own ideas that he threatened to murder people unless

his second rate ideas were published in the mainstream media. What a

shit! Rather than participate in the slow and sometimes painful process

of collectively developing a discussion with people across the world,

the Unabomber adopts the pose of a Lex Luther, an asocial genius whose

ideas will “change the world.”

When we get to read these “wonderful” ideas, what do we get?--a heap of

reactionary bullshit. His tirade against “over-socialised leftists”

smacks of warmed up leftovers from Frederick Nietzsche. O.K., he’s

against technology, but this comes from an anti-modernist, right-wing

perspective. For those who can’t figure it out themselves, the Unabomber

spells it out when he suggests that:

“The people whose behaviour is fairly well under the control of the

system are those of the type that might be called ‘bourgeois.’ But there

are growing numbers of people who in one way or another are rebels

against the system: welfare leaches, youth gangs, cultists, Satanists,

Nazis, radical environmentalists, militiamen, etc..” (Thesis 161)

This is just reactionary elitism, and shows the Unabomber up for the

scum s/he is. It comes as no surprise that Green Anarchist reproduced

the Manifesto and offers accolades to the Unabomber, as this fits in

with their own right-wing agenda. But I am surprised that others haven’t

condemned the Unabomber not simply as an embarrassment, but as a

reactionary.

In the twenties and thirties, reactionary left-wing parties like the

Social Democrats and the Communist Parties tried to offer alliances with

revolutionaries on the basis of a shared discourse around class. Those

who entered such alliances soon found out at their peril the

consequences of such pacts, e.g. the 1937 May Days in Barcelona.

From this experience it is clear that those who are ready to push

technological progress aside in favour of the world human community have

nothing to gain from aligning themselves with people who make a fetish

of the struggle against technology. It doesn’t matter whether these

creeps remain in the right-wing sewers of the Militia movement, or pose

as anarchists.

Anyway, I should have some more bits an pieces to send you soon--a Hakim

Bey scandal in Italy and a discussion of primitivism in Detroit which is

to appear in Transgressions #2.

In Solidarity,

Fabian Tompsett

Unpopular Books, Box 15, 136 Kingland High Road, London E8 2NS, England

FE Note: Write to the above address for a catalog of interesting

anti-authoritarian titles.