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 The Mass Psychology of FascismReich, Wilhelm Year Published: 1970 First Published: 1933Pages: 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. Abstract: - 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 Subject Headings
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