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Work democracy is the natural process of love, work and knowledge which has always governed economy and the social and cultural life of man and always will, as long as there is a human society.

— Wilhelm Reich The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933)

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The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive.

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Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

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Psychic illnesses are the result of a disturbance of the natural capacity for love.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

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The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then is an essential mass-psychological factor in imperialistic wars.

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