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Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 00:04:32 -0400
From: Ralph Dumain <rdumain-AT-igc.org>
Subject: Re: reich


Well, it's not just a matter of nitpicking.  I knew Reich was affiliated
with the Communist Party, and I've heard of SEX POL, but I had no idea he
was even remotely connected with the F.S.  If he were, why did he go nuts
after becoming disillusioned with the Communists instead of hooking up with
the F.S. in exile?

At 10:33 PM 05/09/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>At 10:42 PM 5/8/00 -0400, you wrote:
>
>I responsed privately to a message from Hvard Nilsen on this topic and I
>apologized to him for implying a formal institutional relationship when
>none may have existed.  I was under the impression that Reich and the core
>Frankfurters were more than friends of friends, but I'm away from my
>library and can't demonstrate that.
>
>But I've thought about the whole question and decided that it's petty to
>worry about whether Reich ever was assigned an office at the I.S. by
>Horkheimer....  What difference would that make?  Reich was obviously a
>core Critical Theorist and contemporary in time and closely in space with
>all the obvious Institute affiliates.
>
>I apologize for using the term "Frankfurt School" or "Frankfurter" too
>loosely if it suggests historical inaccuracies, but I'm then stuck for a
>term for people like Reich whose work had *strong* affinities with literal
>Frankfurt School work, much more so than the vague category of 'critical
>theorist' that typically includes Lukacs, Habermas, etc.  Ideas?
>

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