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'What of the special importance Reich attributes to sexual repression? As a practicing therapist, Reich found that sexual repression was at the core of most of his patients' neurotic conflicts. As a doctor interested in youth, he saw that young people spend the greater part of their time thinking about and trying to establish a sexual life (something most people tend to forget when they become adults). As a Freudian theorist, he recognized how sexual feelings could be transformed by experiences and conditioning to appear as their very opposite. It can be argued that consistently repressing any strong impulse contributes to the formation of an authoritarian character. The relatively greater strength of sexual impulses and the equally intense repression, which it calls forth, the almost unique sense of guilt and morbid anxiety connected with inadequate sexuality, all led Reich—as it did Freud—to give priority to sexual repression. Moreover, Reich found that the undischarged energies resulting from sexual repression are used to control a variety of impulses, sexual as well as non-sexual, and serve in this way to underpin the whole of character structure.'
Social and Sexual Revolution, Essays on Marx and Reich, Chapter 8.2
Be in no doubt that at the heart of Cultural Marxism/Critical Theory is sexual 'liberation', repressed sexual feelings are believed by figures such as Reich & Marcuse to be breeding grounds for authoritarianism - fascism. Fascism is the complete and total negation of Marxism, both Socialism and Communism (Socialism is the path to all out Communism). So in their eyes by liberating the masses sexually, they are one step closer on the path to their idea of a Communist 'Utopia'.
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