In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character. Preface to the Third Edition (August 1942).Fascist rebelliousness always occurs where fear of the truth turns a revolutionary emotion into illusions. But one would not call that physician revolutionary who proceeds against a disease with violent cursing but the other who quietly, courageously and conscientiously studies and fights the causes of the disease. True, it may have the aspect of revolutionary emotions.
If, by being revolutionary, one means rational rebellion against intolerable social conditions, if, by being radical, one means "going to the root of things," the rational will to improve them, then fascism is never revolutionary. Responsibility for the elimination of fascism thus results with the masses of average people who might otherwise support and champion it. It is the basic emotional civilization and its mechanistic-mystical conception of life." ―Wilhelm Reich "Fascism on only the organized political expression of the structure of the average man's character. Drawing on his medical expereinces with men and women of various classes, races, nations, and religious beliefs, Reich refutes the still generally held notion that fascism is a specific characteristic of certain nationalities or a political party ideology that is imposed on innocent people by means of force or political manneuvers.
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