I must also call your attention to the fact that it is crucial for my viewpoint that human behavior is to a large extent charged with a considerable amount of energy, but that in contrast to Freud I do not consider this energy to be sexual, but the vital energy within any organism which, according to biological laws, gives man the desire to live, and that means to adapt himself to the social necessities of his society. To go back to what I consider to be the misunderstanding, it has never been my position that society only deforms or manifests that which is already there. If we make the distinction between human necessities in general and human desires in particular then indeed, society creates particular desires which, however, follow the general laws of the necessities rooted in human nature.

One social structure will be conducive to cooperation and solidarity another social structure to competition, suspiciousness, avarice; another to child-like re…

The revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the same time also in it. That he is in it is…

The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human nature, and the human necess…

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

'What the War Taught Me: There are two kinds of people in the world--those who think there are two kinds of people, and those who believe that there is one kin…

All men naturally hate one another; there could not be four friends in the world. (101)