Reich was wrong in any case
December 2025 › Forums › General discussion › Erich Fromm › Reich was wrong in any case
Reich was wrong in any case when it comes down to people being released through therapy becoming socialists. They don`t. They feel better and the effect seems to be that they lose interest in socialism. Until they fall ill again, and need therapy. However, those who are already socialists remain so. Those who are not socialists are not made socialists as a result of Reichian therapy. So Reich was wrong here. But I do not find fault with his theory of the orgone. This is not incompatible with socialist understanding, and makes more sense than the obsession with genes, which so suits bourgeois pseudo-science. For his orgonomic theories, however, Reich has never ceased to be assaulted by the capitalist establishment. Wonder why, hmm? Geneticists always do well under capitalism and are rewarded accordingly with veneration.
