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Freudian Marxism – but – most important info about Reich is missingBy Rerevisionist on December 8, 2010Reich is little-known, not surprisingly as he achieved nothing much. His book ‘Listen, Little Man’ however was liked by some people whose views deserve respect. As far as I could find, it’s not mentioned in Mairowitz and Gonzales’ comic illustrations book.The format is unusual and there’s no reason for it not to work. I don’t think it does here because, with tedious inevitability, this is just another Jewish/USA book. Throughout there’s the usual stuff about Nazis, Hitler starting the war (in fact, Britain declared war on Hitler), omission of the effects of the First World War. In the USA, the Rosenbergs are referred to a ‘so-called ‘Atom-Spies”, Joe McCarthy is a baddy, and all the rest.Reich was Austrian and resembled Freud in some of his ideas, notably the sex bits – ‘sexual revolution’ I suppose being based on the ‘Russian Revolution’. Reich seems to have made money as a therapist and author; all this is not very clear (and may not be known for certain, of course). Later in life Reich became a pseudo-scientist, in both biology and physics: for example he thought up an ‘orgone accumulator’ – like many people, he constructed beliefs around the word ‘energy’. He devised what he apparently believed to be a rain making machine – this cartoon book implies that it worked, which cannot be correct. By this time he was in the USA, and there was FDA action against him; he felt and perhaps was a victim – it’s hard to judge and the effort of ploughing through court transcripts is off-putting.Reich deserves a small book, but it would need a sympathetic understanding of Jews, wars, mass propaganda, science, and the psychology of getting science wrong. This book isn’t it.Please contribute back by OCRing and Spellcheck/Proofreading this book. I recommend ABBYY Finereader 11 (or similar) for doing this work in a relatively easy way. If you plan to do that please leave a comment here so the effort won’t be duplicated by others. Please upload back the final pdf. Thank you.Please note that the high quality scan images are posted here for a specific purpose – to make it easy to OCR/spellcheck the book and not spend 100 hours doing that from a crappy, lossy compressed pdfs that are sometimes posted here. So please don’t waste your time asking why this is not a pdf file. Instead please contribute a few hours of your time and OCR and proofread the posted book. Thank you.