The Proletarian Dream Socialism, Culture, and Emotion in Germany 1863-1933

publishedunderthe pen name AlexWedding,writingfor children meant“to write for our future”and,through fictional settingsand scena ...

(e.g.,“Edewatched”)and that of the intendedreader (e.g.,“onecouldsee”). From thisbifurcated perspective, thereader is invitedato ...

Chapter 16 Chapter.Wilhelm Reich and thePolitics of Proletarian Sexuality Sexuality In sexual relations and sexual intercourse ...

on post-WorldWarIdiscussions on class and sexuality.¹ At the same time, Reich’sextensive revisions of his theories in Americanex ...

mark and, in 1939,for the United States.³Toomuch sex–or the wrong kind of sex–was themain objectionmade by party propagandists o ...

to gather rich empirical data foralater studyonthe authoritarian character structure. Unlikehis wife,Annie Reich (1902–1971), wh ...

“Psychoanalysis is the mother and sociology[i.e., Marxism] the father of sex-economy.Butachild is more than the sum total of his ...

tions within sexologyasamodern science promotingeugenics in the name of socialhygiene and public health–the kind of biopolitics ...

If Reich’sviews on adolescent sexuality scandalized manyprofessionals in- volved in socialistyouth work, his masculinist attitud ...

for its functioning, the Sex-Pol movement had to fight for sexual liberation through the institutions of education, medicine, an ...

nection between classsociety and sexual repression and advocated relentlessly for the individual’sright to sexual happiness,incl ...

else could be described as artificial, excessive,and degenerate.“How does one recognize the character traits of the true revolut ...

ed in the structure of patriarchal societies. Making these insightsavailableto class analysis allows Reich to proposeamodel of s ...

the proletarian fantasy gave waytothe individual credo of self-maximization. Evidence of the process of adaptation to American c ...

munist agitprop, it should not surprise thatthe radicalizing effects of photo- montagecan be analyzed with particular clarity th ...

Chapter 17 John Heartfield’sProductive Rage John Heartfieldtodayknows how to salute beauty.He knows how to create those images w ...

ing onasingular emotion–what his brotherWieland Herzfelde calledproduk- tiverJähzorn(productive rage)–and making its formal mani ...

tears,erasures,and inscriptions. UnlikeKurt Schwitters or Hannah Höch, Heart- field never had anyinterest in exploring the ambig ...

Fig..John Heartfield,Finger hat die Hand/Five Fingers Has the Hand(), KPD election poster,Bundesarchiv-Bildarchiv. Copyr ...

tion of their Moscow-endorsed confrontation course with the SPD.Inreality,the proletarian dream was alreadybeing appropriated, i ...