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Wilhelm Reich1897–1957

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.

Wilhelm Reich on freedom

The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), Ch. 1: Ideology As Material Power, Section 4: The Social Function of Sexual Suppression

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