Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 21:47:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Handelman <mhandelman1-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: AUT: Floyce should read some Wilhelm Reich....


Floyce should really read some Wilhelm Reich (despite
the fact that Reich was homophobic), or at least:

http://www.af-north.org/irrational.html

"According to Reich, the 'suppression of the natural
sexuality in the child, particularly of its genital
sexuality, makes the child
apprehensive, shy, obedient, afraid of authority,
"good" and "adjusted" in the authoritarian sense; it
paralyses the rebellious
forces because any rebellion is laden with anxiety; if
produces, by inhibiting sexual curiosity and sexual
thinking in the child,
a general inhibition of thinking and of critical
faculties. In brief, the goal of sexual repression is
that of producing an
individual who is adjusted to the authoritarian order
and who will submit to it in spite of all misery and
degradation... The
result is fear of freedom, and a conservative,
reactionary mentality. Sexual repression aids
political reaction, not only
through this process which makes the mass individual
passive and unpolitical, but also by creating in his
structure an interest in actively supporting the
authoritarian order.'21 (My emphasis - M.B.)" 

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