fear me. After I had left Moskau the Moskau Academie Kommunists
printed my Psychoanalyse und Dialektischer Materialismus* in both
their Moskau and Berlin editions. Also, I have never turned Communist
and I have never said that the neurosis is due to the class struggle. What
I have done and what these psychopaths hate most is that I brought
depth-psychology into Marxian and other sociology, including an under
standing of such psychopaths as Stalin, Hitler and the like.
Weare continuously drawing moisture into the desert, causing rain
at times, and we keep the deadly DOR out in a realm of about 60 to 80
miles radius.
I hope you do well and are cheerful as much as matters permit.
Keep writing.
Summerhill School
Leiston, Suffolk
My dear Reich,
- I •
February 21, 1955Just got your letter. But how to convey to Ritter the verdict
without being brutal? I can't quote him your words. All I can say is that
R. wants you to cease interpreting him in Britain ... and then of course
he will raise a sheaf of whys?
I think you get me wrong about my wanting to be recognised by my
enemies. Nay, where I get impatient is to see the other side making
victories; here caning in schools increases, here the talk of religious
moulding flourishes; on the radio you hear only the one side-the enemy
one. It doesn't matter if I am recognised, but it matters much that
children aren't recognised.
I am very pessimistic these days. I am almost sure the idiots on both
sides will kill us all. The official line now seems to be atomic death
to all rather than have communism. But what a choice! I don't have
to choose, but I tremble to think that our fate depends on men who must
have been made anti-life in their cradles... Will no great statesman
arise and shout: War is universal suicide; no one can win; all must lose.
* Dialektischer Materialismus und Psychoanalyse (1934), and in English,
"Dialectical Materialism and Psychoanalysis," in Sex Pol Essays, I924-I934
(New York: Vintage Press, 1972 ).