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Mass psychology of fascism

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1980Description: xxxi, 400 pISBN:
  • 9780374508845
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 321.644 R3M2
Summary: In this classic study, Reich provides insight into the phenomenon of fascism, which continues to ravage the international community in ways great and small. Drawing on his medical expereinces with men and women of various classes, races, nations, and religious beliefs, Reich refutes the still generally held notion that fascism is a specific characteristic of certain nationalities or a political party ideology that is imposed on innocent people by means of force or political manneuvers. "Fascism on only the organized political expression of the structure of the average man's character. It is the basic emotional civilization and its mechanistic-mystical conception of life."—Wilhelm Reich Responsibility for the elimination of fascism thus results with the masses of average people who might otherwise support and champion it. (http://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374508845)
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Table of Content:

I. Ideology as a material force
II. The authoritarian ideology of the family in the mass psychology of fascism
III. The race theory
IV. The symbolism of the swastika
V. The sex-economic presuppositions of the authoritarian family
VI. Organized mysticism as an international anti-sexual organization
VII. Sex-economy in the fight against mysticism
VIII. Some questions of sex-political practice
IX. The masses and the state
X. Biosocial function of work
XI. Give responsibility to vitally necessary work!
XII. The biologic miscalculation in the human struggle for freedom
XIII. On natural work-democracy

In this classic study, Reich provides insight into the phenomenon of fascism, which continues to ravage the international community in ways great and small.
Drawing on his medical expereinces with men and women of various classes, races, nations, and religious beliefs, Reich refutes the still generally held notion that fascism is a specific characteristic of certain nationalities or a political party ideology that is imposed on innocent people by means of force or political manneuvers. "Fascism on only the organized political expression of the structure of the average man's character. It is the basic emotional civilization and its mechanistic-mystical conception of life."—Wilhelm Reich
Responsibility for the elimination of fascism thus results with the masses of average people who might otherwise support and champion it.

(http://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374508845)

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