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"Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How is Kaczynski’s well-reasoned, cohesive composition about how revolutionary groups should approach our mercurial future….. I recommend that you read this compelling perspective on how we can frame our struggles in a technological society."
-- The Tech, MIT's oldest and largest newspaper

I really don't think you can beat Kaczynski's piece. He does have a work that he published in prison (Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How), but I think he predominantly builds on, rather than reiterates the point he makes in industrial society.

I agree. I recommend that you read Kaczynski's two books:

"Technological Slavery" (2010) and "Anti-Tech Revolution"(2016).

The second book is truly extraordinary and insightful. Here's a review by MIT:

"Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How is Kaczynski’s well-reasoned, cohesive composition about how revolutionary groups should approach our mercurial future….. I recommend that you read this compelling perspective on how we can frame our struggles in a technological society."
-- The Tech, MIT's oldest and largest newspaper

This is totally false. In modern techno-industrial society you have abundant freedom to do meaningless things--you have a ton of choices in how you fritter away your time in hedonistic pursuits--but in all practical, life-and-death choices, man is completely powerless and freedom-less at the hands of powerful organizations. But it is the freedom to exercise practical, life-and-death choices that is real freedom, which people need to experience to live happy and dignified lives. Purely for the sake of technical necessity, industrial society must have these practical freedoms wrested away from individuals and placed in the hands of powerful organizations. This has been a gradual process, beginning with civilization, but it has become especially acute and accelerated after the industrial revolution.
Kaczynski's knowledge of history is deep and extensive on this point.

I recommend you read his first book, "Technological Slavery" on this topic. You can check out his second book "Anti-Tech Revolution" as well, though this deals more with ecological issues in my opinion and less with human freedom.

Yes, he is a remorseless killer. No he's not "batshit crazy".

You might also want to check out his most recent work, "Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How" (2016)

Here's what MIT's student newspaper had to say about the book:

"Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How is Kaczynski’s well-reasoned, cohesive composition about how revolutionary groups should approach our mercurial future….. I recommend that you read this compelling perspective on how we can frame our struggles in a technological society."
-- The Tech, MIT's oldest and largest newspaper

"batshit crazy" haha. A political classification if there ever was one.

Kaczynski has written two books since his incarceration:
TECHNOLOGICAL SLAVERY (2010) and ANTI-TECH REVOLUTION: WHY AND HOW (2016)

His essential points, according to the preface to Technological Slavery, are:

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. …