The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Edition: Third Edition
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published: 2013-05
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Translation of: Die Massenpsychologie des Faschismus
Format: ebook
ISBN-13: 9781466846951
Copyright date: 1970
Subjects: Fascism; Social psychology; Sex
First sentence: Extensive and painstaking therapeutic work on the human character has led me to the conclusion that, as a rule, we are dealing with three different layers of the biopsychic structure in the evaluation of human reactions.
Description: In this classic study, Reich provides insight into the phenomenon of fascism, which continues to ravage the international community in ways great and small.

Drawing on his medical experiences with men and women of various classes, races, nations, and religious beliefs, Reich refutes the still generally held notion that fascism is a specific characteristic of certain nationalities or a political party ideology that is imposed on innocent people by means of force or political manneuvers. “Fascism on only the organized political expression of the structure of the average man’s character. It is the basic emotional civilization and its mechanistic-mystical conception of life.” —Wilhelm Reich


Responsibility for the elimination of fascism thus results with the masses of average people who might otherwise support and champion it.