The Mass Psychology of Fascism

Reich, Wilhelm
Year First Published:  {12579 The Mass Psychology of Fascism MASS PSYCHOLOGY OF FASCISM Reich, Wilhelm Wilhelm Reich's class study, written during the years of the German crisis. Reich repudiates the concept that fascism is the ideology or action of a single individual or nationality, or any ethnic or political group. He understands fascism as the expression of the irrational character structure of human beings whose needs and impulses have been suppressed. 1933 1970 400pp BC12579s-MassPsychology.jpg B Book - <br> <br> <br>Table of Contents <br> <br>Preface <br> <br>I. Ideology As A Material Force <br>The cleavage <br>Economic and ideological structure of the German society, 1928-1933 <br>How mass psychology sees the problem <br>The social function of sexual repression <br> <br>II. The Authoritarian Ideology of the Family in the Mass Psychology of Fascism <br>Fuhrer and mass structure <br>Hitler's background <br>On the mass psychology of the lower middle class <br>Family ties and nationalistic feelings <br>Nationalistic self-confidence <br>The "domestication" of the industrial workers <br> <br>III. The Race Theory <br>Its contents <br>The objective and subjective functions of ideology <br>Racial purity, blood poisoning, and mysticism <br> <br>IV. The Symbolism of the Swastika <br>V. The Sex-Economic Presuppositions of the Authoritarian Family <br>VI. Organized Mysticism as an International Anti-Sexual Organization <br>The interest in the church <br>The fight against "cultural Bolshevism" <br>The appeal to mystical feelings <br>The goal of the cultural revolution in light of fascist reaction <br> <br>VII. Sex-Economy in the Fight Against Mysticism <br>The three basic elements of religious feelings <br>Anchoring of religion by means of sexual anxiety <br>Healthy and neurotic self-confidence <br> <br>VIII. Some Questions of Sex-Political Practice <br>Theory and Practice <br>The struggle against mysticism until now <br>Sexual happiness contra mysticism <br>The individual uprootment of the religious feeling <br>The practice of sex-economy and objections to it <br>The non-political man <br> <br>IX. The Masses and the State <br>1936: Speak the truth- but how and when? <br>"What takes place in the masses of people?" <br>The "socialist yearning" <br>The "withering away of the state" <br>The program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Eight Party Congress, 1919) <br>The "introduction of Soviet democracy" <br>The development of the apparatus of the authoritarian state from rational social relationships <br>The social function of state capitalism <br> <br>X. Biosocial Function of Work <br>The problem of "voluntary work discipline" <br> <br>XI. Give Responsibility to Vitally Necessary Work! <br>What is "work-democracy"? <br>What is new in work-democracy? <br> <br>XII. The Biological Miscalculation in the Human Struggle for Freedom <br>Our interest in the development of freedom <br>Biologic rigidity, incapacity for freedom, and mechanical authoritarian view of life <br>The arsenal of human freedom <br> <br>XIII. On Natural Work-Democracy <br>Investigation of the natural social forces for the purpose of overcoming the emotional plague <br>Work in contrast to politics <br>Notes on objective criticism and irrational cavilling <br>Work is inherently rational <br>Vitally necessary and other work <br> <br>Index CX6719 1 true true false CX6719.htm [0xc0019c0060 0xc001a9c420 0xc001af0420 0xc001d4a270 0xc002345380 0xc00029aa20 0xc00237e6c0 0xc000478fc0 0xc000893cb0 0xc0005dfc80 0xc0000cd7d0 0xc0004fdaa0 0xc0005a9470 0xc000966e10 0xc0002b7710 0xc000421350 0xc0004217a0 0xc00060c2a0 0xc0006b3d10 0xc000838ff0 0xc000889f20 0xc0008e56e0 0xc000b0ddd0 0xc000b6a150 0xc0018ba720 0xc001f804b0 0xc000bdd890 0xc000c2aed0 0xc000c2b4d0 0xc000c96630 0xc0015726f0 0xc0015c3290 0xc0022574d0 0xc0022c5230 0xc0022c5bf0 0xc0022e9bc0 0xc0023125a0 0xc002350e70 0xc0027765d0 0xc002776ff0 0xc00278b2f0 0xc00278bb90 0xc0027b1440 0xc0028425d0] Cx}
Year Published:  1970
Pages:  400pp   Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX6719

Wilhelm Reich's class study, written during the years of the German crisis. Reich repudiates the concept that fascism is the ideology or action of a single individual or nationality, or any ethnic or political group. He understands fascism as the expression of the irrational character structure of human beings whose needs and impulses have been suppressed.

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Table of Contents

Preface

I. Ideology As A Material Force
The cleavage
Economic and ideological structure of the German society, 1928-1933
How mass psychology sees the problem
The social function of sexual repression

II. The Authoritarian Ideology of the Family in the Mass Psychology of Fascism
Fuhrer and mass structure
Hitler's background
On the mass psychology of the lower middle class
Family ties and nationalistic feelings
Nationalistic self-confidence
The "domestication" of the industrial workers

III. The Race Theory
Its contents
The objective and subjective functions of ideology
Racial purity, blood poisoning, and mysticism

IV. The Symbolism of the Swastika
V. The Sex-Economic Presuppositions of the Authoritarian Family
VI. Organized Mysticism as an International Anti-Sexual Organization
The interest in the church
The fight against "cultural Bolshevism"
The appeal to mystical feelings
The goal of the cultural revolution in light of fascist reaction

VII. Sex-Economy in the Fight Against Mysticism
The three basic elements of religious feelings
Anchoring of religion by means of sexual anxiety
Healthy and neurotic self-confidence

VIII. Some Questions of Sex-Political Practice
Theory and Practice
The struggle against mysticism until now
Sexual happiness contra mysticism
The individual uprootment of the religious feeling
The practice of sex-economy and objections to it
The non-political man

IX. The Masses and the State
1936: Speak the truth- but how and when?
"What takes place in the masses of people?"
The "socialist yearning"
The "withering away of the state"
The program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Eight Party Congress, 1919)
The "introduction of Soviet democracy"
The development of the apparatus of the authoritarian state from rational social relationships
The social function of state capitalism

X. Biosocial Function of Work
The problem of "voluntary work discipline"

XI. Give Responsibility to Vitally Necessary Work!
What is "work-democracy"?
What is new in work-democracy?

XII. The Biological Miscalculation in the Human Struggle for Freedom
Our interest in the development of freedom
Biologic rigidity, incapacity for freedom, and mechanical authoritarian view of life
The arsenal of human freedom

XIII. On Natural Work-Democracy
Investigation of the natural social forces for the purpose of overcoming the emotional plague
Work in contrast to politics
Notes on objective criticism and irrational cavilling
Work is inherently rational
Vitally necessary and other work

Index

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