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September 25, 2024

The Austrian Jewish Theorist of the Sexual Revolution

The Marx of the libido.

The question of why women are becoming unchurched is a complicated one, but no doubt it relates to the social and cultural changes of what has become known as the sexual revolution. The term was coined in the 1920s by the great theorist of that revolution, Wilhelm Reich, whom James Panero describes as “the Marx of the libido.” While Jews have little reason to be proud of Reich, who at best was a quack, he no doubt deserves to be considered among the Jews who helped shape the 20th century, for better and for worse:

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