are ignorant or inimical, and to beg them to accept my theories. While
the first helps, the second harms the work.
The orgone work is progressing fruitfully and spreading steadily day
by day.
Please, keep me informed on your plans, in order to enable us to
provide quarters for your stay in Maine.Summerhill School
Leiston, SuffolkMy dear Reich,- I •
March 7, 1948I feel pessimistic and depressed about the world, and can't
avoid the conclusion that atomic war is near. The dilemma is this...
to die atomically, or to live in a Communist police state. We adults
might say: better dead than that, but Peter and Zoe might say: nay, we
want to live even if in a bad police state, for we can try to change it for
something better. My point is that we may be ready to die for a
principle but have we the right to drag our kids into the death we
choose? Rather like the familiar case of the bankrupt man who shoots
his children and then himself. I hate the idea of Zoe growing up in
Communism, but I hate more the idea of her not growing up at all. It
sure is a difficult dilemma. I think that Communism is coming all over
the world, logically following your argument of a castrated society. Its
anti-life discipline will make it conquer, and politically it is a sternly
disciplined force, whereas against it is only a loose union of U.S.A.
capitalism and British social democracy. Two elements that are opposed
to each other. What a dilemma for us who don't believe in either camp.
Well, we'll have much to talk about when we meet again.
- I •
Forest Hills, New York
March 12, 1948
My dear Neill:
I do not agree with you that the Communists will conquer the
world. The forces of life are much stronger than the forces of darkness
and dictatorship. Red Fascism will go down just as the black fascism
went down. It is only a question of how many innocent human lives they