The Mass Psychology of Fascism
by Dr. Wilhelm Reich
"The reactionary power in masses of people appears as a general fear of responsibility and fear of freedom. These are not moralistic evaluations. This fear is deeply rooted in the biological constitution of present-day man."
The polymath scientist Wilhelm Reich gives his response to Marx, his on-the-ground diagnosis of the rise of Fascism from the emotionally-sick bodies of vast numbers of Germans, and his assessment of the changes to society that are needed in order to promote health & rationality & knowledge & pleasure as the dominant effects of culture.
Suffer from my remarks about it HERE.
*As always with Reich, the term 'sexuality' must be understood quite broadly as the streaming whole-bodily field of desire-charged biological electricities. He follows the Freudian grammar of calling the root-stalk of psychic impulses according to its function as pleasurable-re-generation.
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