Vem styr vem? Wilhelm Reichs förklaring av fascism

En populär förklaring till fascism är att auktoritärt regerande manipulerar massorna. Psykoanalytikern och forskaren Wilhelm Reich vände 1933 på förklaringen. Det är snarare massorna som producerar det fascistiska regerandet. 

”It is not merely that the ruling ideology is the ideology of the ruling class. What is more important for the solution of practical problems is the fact that the contradictions in the economic structure of a society are also anchored in the mass-psychological structure of its members. Otherwise, the fact could not be understood that the economic laws of a society can have practical effects only through the activity of the masses who are subject to them.”

Referens

Wilhelm Reich, Citerat från kapitlet ”3. The problem of mass psychology”, The mass psychology of fascism, NY: Orgone Institute Press, 1946, (original 1933).