The Turner Diaries

Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
by Jeffrey Toobin
Published 1 May 2023

“Fuck the voting”: Dalton Bennett, Jon Swaine, and Jacqueline Alemany, “Jan. 6 Committee Hearing Will Use Clips from Roger Stone Documentary,” Washington Post, Sept. 26, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/26/jan6-committee-roger-stone-documentary/. Likewise, too, The Turner Diaries: Alexandra Alter, “How ‘The Turner Diaries’ Incites White Supremacists,” New York Times, Jan. 12, updated, Jan. 15, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/books/turner-diaries-white-supremacists.html; Aja Romano, “How a Dystopian Neo-Nazi Novel Helped Fuel Decades of White Supremacist Terrorism,” Vox, Jan. 28, 2021, https://www.vox.com/22232779/the-turner-diaries-novel-links-to-terrorism-william-luther-pierce. day of violence from The Turner Diaries: Tom Dreisbach, “Conspiracy Charges Bring Proud Boys’ History of Violence Into the Spotlight,” NPR, April 9, 2021, https://www.npr.org/2021/04/09/985104612/conspiracy-charges-bring-proud-boys-history-of-violence-into-spotlight.

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Anticipating the trends of a later day, Tim tailored his media consumption to his ideological predilections, starting with American Hunter, the NRA magazine. McVeigh even studied the small advertisements in the back pages. He responded to one for a novel called The Turner Diaries. The book arrived by mail, and he read it for the first of many times. It changed his life, as it did numerous others. The cover of The Turner Diaries lists the author as Andrew Macdonald, which was a pseudonym for William Luther Pierce, who led a white supremacist, neo-Nazi organization called the National Alliance. The novel, first published in 1978 and circulated mostly by direct mail through advertisements in conservative magazines and mailing lists, tells a gruesome tale of a right-wing revolution in the United States.

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In later years, “the Day of the Rope” became a kind of extremist code for the moment when white people take their revenge against their enemies. Toward the end of The Turner Diaries, the United States is convulsed by a nuclear Civil War. Sixty million Americans are dead. The epilogue points to a happy ending. By 1999, the Organization had won a global war, and “the dream of a White world became a certainty.” The violence in The Turner Diaries is so lurid, almost cartoonish, that it’s tempting to dismiss the book as political pornography. In fact, the Diaries reflects an ideology with deep roots in American history.

Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
by Talia Lavin
Published 14 Jul 2020

In the 1970s, a young neo-Nazi named William Luther Pierce produced a work that would go on to inspire an extraordinary amount of violence. The novel was called The Turner Diaries. Published in 1978, it was a futuristic description of the violent struggle for a white utopia in the United States. While it was disseminated as a work of fiction, some of its devoted readers did whatever they could to make the racist fantasy it depicted reality—up to and including murder. The Turner Diaries proved a remarkably resilient and compelling narrative for white supremacists and conspiracists across the country; it was sold at gun shows and by mail order.

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His hero wrote about “swarthy, kinky-haired little Jewboys” who paid off African-Americans to oppose white racism, and cast a “Jewish spell” over the majority of white Americans, lulling them into materialism and complacency. The Turner Diaries would go on to inspire a white-supremacist terrorist gang called the Order, directly named after the group in the book, to rob banks and armored cars, and ultimately shoot to death Jewish radio host Alan Berg in Colorado in 1984. Most famously, the book was the ideological lodestar of mass murderer Timothy McVeigh, who bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995, killing 168 people, including children. The FBI has labeled it the “Bible of the racist right.” If so, a devotee of the Turner Diaries subsequently produced the movement’s catechism.

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But these puerile jokes were undercut with deadly serious rants about their cause: There were screeds asserting that US electoral politics had reached its limit and needed to be replaced with violent revolutionary activities, and a seemingly endless well of earnest vitriol against minorities and Jews. The two cadences of conversation overlapped indistinguishably, forming an endless, roiling soup of incitement and gloating camaraderie. Users swapped texts like Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto about “white genocide,” PDFs of The Turner Diaries, the neo-Nazi book Siege by James Mason, Holocaust-denial manifestos, and quotes about Adolf Hitler. They also voiced their discomfort and frustration with the Republican Party’s open embrace of Israel, and shared memes about Jewish “decadence,” world control, and degeneracy—themes Hitler and Henry Ford might have been proud of.

Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
by Elle Reeve
Published 9 Jul 2024

These were the things he would fight for, in that order. It became the motto of the Traditionalist Workers Party, the white nationalist group he cofounded a decade later. * * * Around the same time, in the mid-2000s, a couple hundred miles away, Matthew Heimbach went on Amazon.com and bought an SS flag and The Turner Diaries. He was a teenager in a wealthy bedroom community outside Washington, D.C. Amazon suggested he “might be interested in” lots of other things, like The Bell Curve and Mein Kampf. He eventually found and read a book Parrott wrote about immigration, Hoosier Nation. In the old days it had been hard to get your hands on fascist literature.

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His dad taught high school history, and their house was full of historical memorabilia. “So when your son puts up an SS flag above his bed, you’re not ignorant, right?” Heimbach said. His mom might not have known what it was. “My dad, however, taught the shit in school. Smart fucking guy. He knew what it was, and didn’t say a fucking word. Mein Kampf shows up on my desk, or The Turner Diaries—didn’t say a fuckin’ word.” When his parents divorced, Heimbach said, his father didn’t make a scene. “No screaming, no yelling, no crying, no big display. Just, ‘I am finished with this.’ Beep beep boop beep.” “So, long story short, why do we become fascists? Because fuck our dads.” The anger at his father was apparent in Heimbach even back when he was still in school.

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Coming-Out Party,” Washington Post, September 10, 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/09/10/four-lessons-from-the-alt-rights-d-c-coming-out-party/ “I think the users of 8chan”: Craig Silverman and Jane Lytvynenko, “Meet the Online Porn Pioneer Who Created a News Site for Internet Trolls,” BuzzFeed News, February 22, 2017. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/meet-the-online-porn-pioneer-who-created-a-news-site-for-int Spencer gave a speech: Daniel Lombroso and Yoni Appelbaum, “ ‘Hail Trump!’: Video of White Nationalists Cheering the President-Elect,” Atlantic, November 21, 2016. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/richard-spencer-speech-npi/508379/ CHAPTER 9: RIGHT-WING WOMEN “Day of the Rope”: Andrew MacDonald, The Turner Diaries (Barricade Books Inc., 1996). In 1987, Dworkin landed: “The Spy 100,” Spy, October 1987. In that book, Dworkin: Andrea Dworkin, Right-Wing Women: The Politics of Domesticated Females (Women’s Press, 1983). The New York Times headline read: Liam Stack, “Attack on Alt-Right Leader Has Internet Asking: Is It O.K. to Punch a Nazi?

Global Catastrophic Risks
by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic
Published 2 Jul 2008

Presented at the V I S ION-21 Symposium sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute, 30-31 M arch 1 993. http: ( fwww­ rohan. sdsu. eduf facultyfvinge fmiscf singularity.html Wagar, W.W. ( 1982). Terminal Visions: The Literature of Last Things (Bloomington: Indiana University Press). Whalen, R.K. (2000). Premillennialism. In Landes, R.A. (ed.) , The Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennia! Movements, pp. 3 3 1 (New York: Routledge). Whitsel, B. ( 1 998) . The Turner Diaries and Cosmotheism: William Pierce's Theology of Revolution. Nova Religio, 1(2), 1 83-1 97. Wilson, D. (2007). Where's My ]etpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future that Never Arrived (Bloomsbury) . Wildavsky, A.B. ( 1 987). Choosing preferences by constructing institutions: a cultural theory of preference formation.

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Since there are far more hateful, delusional and 27 Indeed, the former head of the CIA's Bin Laden Unit has explained that, 'What al-Qaeda wants is a high body count as soon as possible, and it will use whatever CBRN [chemical, biological, radiologicaL nuclear] materials it gets in ways that will ensure the most corpses' ( Scheuer, 2002, p. 198). 28 For instance, The Turner Diaries, a novel written by the former leader of the National Alliance, William Pierce, and which has had considerable influence on many right·wingers, describes racist 'patriots' destroying cities and other targets with nuclear weapons (Macdonald, 1999). Catastrophic nuclear terrorism: a preventable peril 419 solipsistic individuals than organized groups in this world, 29 this situation would indeed be deserving of the label of a nuclear nightmare.

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Lifton, R.J. (1999). Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism (New York: Metropolitan Books). Lugar, R.G. (2005). The Lugar Survey on Proliferation Threats and Responses (Washington, DC: U . S . Senate). Macdonald, A. [pseudonym for Pierce] ( 1999). The Turner Diaries: A Novel. Hillsboro, W.V.: National Vanguard; originally published 1 980. Maerli, M . B . (Summer, 2000). Relearning the ABCs: terrorists and 'weapons of mass destruction'. The Nonproliferation Review. Maerli, M.B. (2004). Crude Nukes on the Loose? Preventing Nuclear Terrorism by Means of Optimum Nuclear Husbandry, Transparency, and Non-Intrusive Fissile Material Verification.

The Science of Hate: How Prejudice Becomes Hate and What We Can Do to Stop It
by Matthew Williams
Published 23 Mar 2021

He dabbled with right-wing organisations, including the BNP, which he quickly left, blaming their refusal to take up arms, and the National Socialist Movement, a breakaway group of the terrorist neo-Nazi organisation Combat 18 led by David Myatt. The pipe bombing of the Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta in 1996, one of a series of attacks by Eric Rudolph targeting abortion rights and the ‘homosexual agenda’, was a key moment in the development of Copeland’s vision for his London attacks. After this he digested biographies of Hitler, The Turner Diaries (which depicts violent revolution and a race war in the US), the pamphlet A Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution written by David Myatt, and The Terrorist’s Handbook, downloaded from the internet. Before committing his horrific crimes, he visited his GP to tell them he was ‘losing his mind’.

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Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City
by Mike Davis
Published 27 Aug 2001

permanent, well-endowed lobby - US English - was estab- lished in Washington and initially attracted the support of old- fashioned Americanizers like Linda Chavez (the Madame Chiang Kai-shek of Latino conservatism) and Walter Cronkite. They eventually resigned when leaked documents revealed an organiza- tion steeped in herrenvolkish bigotry. For example, the group's founder. Dr. John Tanton, likes to terrify supporters with apocalyptic Aryan rhetoric that might have been lifted from the pages of the Turner Diaries: To govern does is to populate. In this society this hold? political power the instance in first to a group that is simply which those with and control over more fertile? their pants caught by those with their pants down! night? where the majority rules, Will the present majority peaceably hand over ...

How to Blow Up a Pipeline
by Andreas Malm
Published 4 Jan 2021

Murder is no longer abhorred – ‘uniquely valuable individuals make uniquely valuable targets for assassination’ – as the deep-green guerrillas fight their way through the continents, wade through rising rivers of blood and collect firewood for surviving elders, in a book of revelation whose climactic battles bring to mind The Turner Diaries and other American fantasies of race war. It is another ending for deep ecology. It makes the very notion of violent resistance appear nauseating. Perhaps the climate movement has, after all, learned the lesson well by not even considering going down this route. Less than a map for troop movements, Deep Green Resistance should be read as a symptom of hardening despair and deadlock.

The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?
by David Brin
Published 1 Jan 1998

On the other hand, the future will not lack for challenges and dangers. If nearly all valid or important wisdom from the past and present winds up being stored and valued, so will misinformation, lies, and slanderous halftruths. While ethnic crafts and amateur science promote wholesome diversity, calumnies like the Turner Diaries will also keep circulating, reproduced by cheap electronic means, infecting yet more fragile minds and egos with the same cruel madness that brought ruinous destruction to Oklahoma City in 1995. Of course it is by tolerating such forces, which proudly avow to hating tolerance and diversity, that our system proves its essential strength.

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Anonymity also has a long-standing role in demagoguery, as when Senator Joe McCarthy claimed to have scores of independent sources to verify his wild accusations of Communist infiltration into the U.S. government. Sources that he “could not reveal”; nevertheless, the claim lent him credibility with some citizens. We have seen anonymity at work in countless fabrications and calumnies, from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to the Turner Diaries, but it also plays a subtly powerful role in some of the most respected modern media journals. Speaking about unsigned newspaper editorials, E. M. Forster wrote that “anonymous statements have ... a universal air about them. Absolute truth, the collected wisdom of the universe, seems to be speaking, not the feeble voice of a man.”

New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI
by Frank Pasquale
Published 14 May 2020

William Bogard, The Simulation of Surveillance: Hypercontrol in Telematic Societies (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 85. 36. Paul Scharre, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War (New York: Norton, 2018). 37. Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018), discussing the popularity of Andrew Macdonald’s novel The Turner Diaries (Charlottesville, VA: National Vanguard Books, 1999). 38. Brian Massumi, Ontopower: War, Powers, and the State of Perception (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006); Joseph A. Schumpeter, The Economics and Sociology of Capitalism, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991), 157. 39.

I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59
by Douglas Edwards
Published 11 Jul 2011

They had emptied the kitchens and given the food to firefighters and police, but they were anxious to reestablish some sense of routine. I gave up on work. My heart wasn't in it. I started plugging search terms into Google to see what I could learn about the who and the why of what had happened. What was the significance of the date September 11? I didn't find much. The Turner Diaries, a neo-Nazi work of fiction dating from 1978, referred to bombings taking place in Houston on September 11. The Israeli-Palestinian Declaration of Principles was signed on September 13. Tenuous connections at best. More curious was a September 4 Usenet post archived in Google groups. A writer calling himself "Nostradamus" had written, "Wait 7 days, and then maybe I'll answer this post.

American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15
by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson
Published 25 Sep 2023

By the late 1970s, a white nationalist subculture in the United States embraced the AR-15 as a weapon it could use for what it saw as an inevitable race war. In 1978, William Luther Pierce, who founded a white nationalist organization, wrote a dystopian fantasy novel under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. Set in the early 1990s, The Turner Diaries had on its red cover a sketch of a white man and a white woman holding guns. The first edition showed the woman gripping one of Stoner’s guns. A later edition showed the man firing the rifle. The novel’s lead character was Earl Turner, part of a white underground resistance group. Turner used an M16 in the novel to shoot three Black people and a white sympathizer.