"Marx was not able to develop sociology of sex, because at that time sexology did not exist." - Wilhelm Reich

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I'm bursting at the seems with orgone energy

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Are doing the book club too? The book is fucking awful, everyone should read this hot mess. Like telling someone to try something that tastes bad. Here's a gem:

We have to be able to explain how it was possible for mysticism to have triumphed over scientific sociology

Scientific sociology! Hah, this dude had way too much faith in the soft "sciences" that knew Marxism was the right system everyone needed, but was too stupid to want.

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Yeah I wanna do book club, and tried to read it, but it sucks. Also neither Reich or this work are particularly historically important, so I have no reason to suffer through it. Even Marx and his work was at least historically important

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Hopefully next book is a better read. Wikipedia says "his writing influenced generations of intellectuals; he coined the phrase "the sexual revolution" and according to one historian acted as its midwife." He helped get the ladies to slut out.