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instance, I am speaking about the bourgeois human, but meanwhile we

learned that the so-called proletariat is in its structure not less bourgeois

than the bourgeois. I have to replace such words by other words which

reflect the real meaning in a better way.

I don't want to be taken for a Marxist any more, in spite of the fact

that I have a higher regard and a better understanding of Marx's

achievement than I had then. And I cannot subdue the insights of our

new biological findings to old and wrong concepts. I believe that the

elimination of the empty slogans and the addition of the new bio­

psychological and work-democratic facts, will bring the book up to date

without changing its factual content. I am going ahead with the adjust­

ment of the book and the publisher will obtain a copy of the manu­

script in case he decides to publish it.

Orgonon

Rangeley , Maine

My dear Neill:

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August 20, 1942

This letter is to ask your opinion about an idea which I had

lately in connection with the further development of our work. I have

encountered some uneasy feelings about describing the actual political

and social tasks in plain language as I was used [to do] in Europe. You

must understand that-in spite of the fact that American democracy is,

due to the American Revolution, far more free of traditional thinking

than the European world, and much further advanced in dealing with the

"common man"-there are besides that still prevailing attitudes which

don't like to see heavy scientific stuff brought forth together with actual

social policy which never lacks the taste of the "soap box." I myself

have the feeling that a pamphlet about "Work Democracy" which has

been translated in England is too political in its nature to be quietly

accepted together with the findings about the orgone. Yet they are

closely connected; but not for the feeling of the average individual. I

don't wish to yield to conservative views, but we have to be flexible

where flexibility does not hamper our truth. In short: What would you

think of editing a special journal in English within England's borders

called, say, Work Democracy, Journal for the Social Evaluation of

Depth Psychology and Orgone Biophysics. It would train specialists in

social work; it would explain what work democracy is, its history,