The Turner Diaries are a detailed and continuous record of struggle during and before the revolution. Because these are daily accounts and the person recording the information is a part of the main group “The Organization”, this is meant to be seen as a reliable account of what happens. In 1978, William Luther Pierce used a pen name, Andrew MacDonald, to write the book. He also founded the National Alliance, which was a white supremacist group. This book inspired acts of terrorism like the Oklahoma City bombing and the point of the book was to further radicalize people who were already held right wing beliefs. This was in no way meant to convince others to join the cause.
In the book, black people (and people of color in general), plus Jewish people were seen as inferior. They often reference “the Great One” multiple times throughout the book and this is often interpreted as being Hitler himself. Anyone not fully committed to the cause of eliminating people of color, would also be executed. There is a quote that goes, “making it… hate crime for white people to defend themselves when crimes are committed against them by a non-white person.” This is meant to signify “what if the roles were reversed” but I don’t think they have the same standing. This doesn’t account for the power being held by white people for centuries while also establishing oppressive systems. For the book trying to further radicalize people, this analysis is irrelevant. The only important thing is the initial reaction of hatred.
This book also overtly establishes ethic cleaning and genocide. The main plot point of the book is the “the Organization” eventually gains enough power to kill every person of color and kill white people who associate with them because they are seen as “less pure”, which is also known as the “Day of the Rope”. Eventually, their influence would reach global measures and only white people would live on the Earth.
Amazon had only an e-copy version available on their website but after the January 6th insurrection, they decided to permanently remove it from their shelves to not cause further violence.
