to run our civilisation for us as politicians or bureaucrats. Take your
own line of the moment-cancer research. Any State will want to
organise this ; and any State will put men above you who know how to
add up figures, but know nothing about cancer; and you will be too busy
in your lab to bother about the organising. I simply can't see a solution
of the problem: how to run a State without the bureaucrat. After the
war it is probable that there will be no private schools in Europe. Al
ready the big schools like Eton and Harrow are appealing to the gOY/
emment for support. What hopes, therefore, for small schools like
mine? They will either be closed or will come under govt. organisation,
and that means that I have to treat children, not as I know how they
ought to be treated, but according to the ideas of a Minister of Educa
tion or his subordinates. That would be death to free experiment.
You see I am taking men as we know them now; I am not postulating
a new race of men who will be great enough to allow freedom to the
scientist or artist. Yes, under your universal natural love and work and
science it could be done. But, Reich, we have to face a post-war world
in which stupidity won't have been killed by bombs, I mean an im
mediate post-war world. The Left people are just as retarded as the
Right. After all, I wouldn't ask Karl Marx or even Einstein how to run
a school.
I am so glad you met Einstein. I do hope that his interest is aroused
and that he investigates the thing for himself. Be sure to send me
everything you publish in English; even the smallest pamphlets.
My letter of a few days ago, sent via the Chief Censor, was not
exactly what I meant it to be; for knowing that another man will read a
letter is enough to inhibit the writer more or less. But what I said fits
into what I am saying in this letter, viz. that in a world where sex is
bound it isn't easy to love or rather to find love. So in occupation. You
and I are both ahead of our time (you more than I) and we find so
much difficulty in a truth-inhibited world in advancing our ideas, for
sex and truth are both badly inhibited.
I still think you don't give enough credit to the Communists in spite
of their great mistakes. Maybe I give too much importance to the mere
abolition of profit, * of exploitation by private employers, but I think
that the abolition of profit was and is a tremendous step forwards. With
out it I can't see how your own idea of the future State can come about.
* In the margin of this letter, Reich wrote: "Not abolished."