ment of love, work and knowledge. These political systems are bogged
down fully and without any hope in political rigmarole. If human
society is to survive (I fear that our present society will NOT survive!!!)
neither capitalism nor communism must exist. But there is no doubt
whatsoever that the chances, the possibilities of thinking and talking
things over and preparing for the future are there only in the Western
countries and not in Russia. You don't get killed in U.S.A. if you
publish about work democracy, but in Russia you do.
The main problem is and will probably be for another 500 years the
Little Man and his ways of thinking and acting. 1 just labored hard and
painfully on a 60-page "Talk with the Little Man"* which is unpublish
able.
Did you receive my Mass Psychology of Fascism? 1 sent you a signed
copy. People say that it's good but 1 am far away from it.
According to Raknes, our work stands well in Norway. Its represen
tatives are regarded highly and they live well. Raknes saw the Orgone
in its different forms and is going to take all back to Norway.
Good luck for the great event you expect. Good luck! Write when it
happens. You will see it's different to have a child of your own-it's
"capitalistic." Give my regards to Mrs. Neill!
Summerhill School
Leiston, Suffolk
My dear Reich,- I •
October 4, 1946Your Fascism book is too good; it is like a rich Xmas pudding,
and taken in too large doses is indigestible. 1 mean it seriously. 1 found
that after reading three chapters 1 felt 1 had to rest and think. Your
point of view is easily the most important of all views today, for you
are the only man who is viewing society from the Sex Pol point of view.
But reading you makes me pessimistic; 1 say to myself: "How the hell
can Reich, who is so obviously right, get across to the man in the
streetT' What is needed is a book called "Reich without Tears," one
- Listen, Little Man! (Orgone Institute Press, 1948; new translation, 1974).
Originally written as a private formulation of Reich's outrage over what man
(the Little Man) does to himself and to the great men who try to help him.