The Turner Diaries

The Turner Diaries is a novel written in 1978 by William Pierce (under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald), the late leader of the neo-Nazi group, the National Alliance.

Plot

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The narrative starts with a forward set in the year 2099, one hundred years after most, if not all, of the non-whites in the world have been killed and a white-supremacist revolutionary world government has been established. The bulk of the book then quotes a recently discovered diary of a man named Earl Turner, an active member of the movement that caused these events. The book details a violent overthrow of the United States federal government by Turner and his comrades and a brutal contemporaneous race war that takes place first in North America, and then the rest of the world.

Related Topics:
White-supremacist - Earl Turner - United States - Race war

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The story starts soon after the US federal government has confiscated all civilian firearms in the US under the "Cohen Act", and the "Organization" of which Turner and his cohorts are members "go underground" to launch a guerilla war against the "System", which is depicted as the totality of the government, media and economy that is under "Jewish control". The Organization starts with acts such as the bombing of FBI headquarters, which many have suggested served as a model for the Oklahoma City bombing, and continues to prosecute an ongoing, low level campaign of terrorism, assassination and economic sabotage throughout the United States. Eventually, the Organization seizes physical control of Southern California, including nuclear weapons at Vandenberg Air Force Base; ethnically cleanses the area of all blacks, hispanics, and asians; and summarily executes all Jews and "race-traitors". They then use both this base of operations and their nuclear weapons to open a wider war in which they launch nuclear strikes against New York City and Israel, initiate a nuclear exchange between the US and the Soviet Union, and plant nuclear weapons and new cells throughout North America. The diary section ends with the protagonist flying an airplane equipped with an atomic bomb on a suicide mission to destroy the Pentagon, in order to eliminate the leadership of the remaining military government in the US. The novel ends with an epilogue summarizing how the Organization continued on to conquer the rest of world and to eliminate all people of other races.

Related Topics:
US federal government - Guerilla - FBI - Oklahoma City bombing - Terrorism - Assassination - Sabotage - Southern California - Vandenberg Air Force Base - Ethnically cleanses - New York City - Israel - Soviet Union - Airplane - Atomic bomb - Pentagon - Military government

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The book is graphically violent. All non-whites, which include blacks and latinos, are viciously depicted as being sub-human and bestial. Jews are depicted and conniving and manipulative puppet-masters who control the government, media and economy. Whites who do not support the race war are described as weak "race traitors" who must be terrorized into supporting it or else killed along with the non-whites.

Related Topics:
Blacks - Latinos

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The book depicts the hypothetical US of the mid-1990s as being a bleak, poor, decaying and oppressive society, with an economy on the brink of collapse, a goverment that has become a police-state, and a society that has taken multiculturalism and liberalism to unlikely and irrational extremes (all of which is cast as the result of "Jewish domination"). It should be noted that the book was written in 1978, amidst the US economic difficulties of the 1970s, such as stagflation and the gas crunch; at the tail end of the second, "identity politics" phase of the civil rights movement; and prior to the changes in the US political system and economy that occurred in the 1980s under Ronald Reagan. This indicates that the hypothetical US depicted in the Turner Diaries was probably a (rather fanciful) future extrapolation of the circumstances of the late-1970s that the author believed (and perhaps hoped) would be ripe for future revolution.

Related Topics:
Police-state - Multiculturalism - Liberalism - "Jewish domination" - Stagflation - Gas crunch - Identity politics - Civil rights movement - Ronald Reagan

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It is also posited by many that the book actually represents a sequel to a later book written by William Pierce (again under the Macdonald pseudonym,) "Hunter". A history of the revolutionary Organization is never fully provided in "The Turner Diaries", leading to widespread assumption that it represented a hypothetical "next step" in the evolution of the National Alliance. "Hunter" depicts the actions of a man, Oscar Yeager, obsessed with ridding society of the perceived enemies of the white race: blacks, Jews, and mixed-race couples. Yeager's actions eventually cultivate him a following, a small revolutionary cadre, which many correlate to early incarnations of The Order.

Related Topics:
Oscar Yeager - The Order

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