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Summerhill School
Festiniog, North WalesMy dear Reich,60October 10, 1941I had your last letter when I was in Scotland. Not feeling well.
I went up to Thomson's Nature Cure home in Edinburgh for five weeks.
Well, well, Reich, I feel better and can work better, although my interest
in analysis is still weak. Constance and I are translating your Arbeits
demokratie [Work Democracy].
I had a letter from Tor Raknes who is in the Norwegian Air Force in
this country. He writes: "I don't know much about my father now, but
when I left Oslo, January 20th, he had quite a lot of patients and up
to my departure he didn't have any direct trouble with the Nazis except
for an article where he was accused of 'spoiling the Nordic race.' The
article also referred to Dr. Reich as 'a swindler' and so on."
Tor came here about May the First, so that if he left Oslo in January
he must have come a long roundabout way. Like you, I am completely
cut off from Norway and now Sweden too is impossible to write to or
get letters from. Reich, how are we to get rid of that bloody poisonous
thing Fascism early enough for you and me to go on working in freedom?
It must die just as the monsters of primitive times died, for like them
it has strength but no head and brain. I am impatient to live to see it
slain.
Constance and I talked about your references to Stalinism in
Arbtsdem. Do you want them kept as they are, or does the war modify
your opinion of Russia? I suppose that to you Stalinism would be better
than Hitlerism naturally. We can discuss this when the booklet is trans
lated anyway.
I long to read of your Bione work and its results. I hate the fate that
prevents our being able to meet again. God knows when anyone will
sail from here to N.Y. on a pleasure cruise. In the new world it will be
all building up and there will be no room for pleasure ships I fancy. If
I were young I'd take up architecture as a profession. Think of the
wonderful opportunities there will be to build great cities. The half and
half men, the compromise architects will get the work to do, I fear, the
men who stick to brick and cement when the future is possibly one of
glass buildings or bakelite [plastic] or rubber or what not.
Well, Reich, let me hear from you again.
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