"If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible."
— Freedom

January 1, 1970

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Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933; 2nd edition 1934; 3rd edition 1942)· First English translation of the third edition, as translated by Theodore P. Wolfe (1946), online at the Internet Archive · Translation by Vincent R. Carfagno (1970), online at the Internet Archive. Ch. 1 : Ideology As Material Power, Section 4 : The Social Function of Sexual Suppression