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It is obvious that the fascist mass pestilence, with its background of thousands of years, cannot be mastered with social measures corresponding to the past three hundred years. The discovery of the natural biological work democracy in international human intercourse is the answer to fascism. This will be no less true even if not one of the living sex-economists, orgone biophysicists or work democrats should live to see its general functioning and its victory over the irrationalism in social life.

Wilhelm Reich#21

PoliticsDemocracyBiologyFascismGlobalization

About this quote

What does it mean?
Fascist mass movements can't be solved with old social measures; a natural, biological-based democracy in global interaction is the solution.
In plain terms
Old policies can't stop fascism; a biologically grounded global democracy can.
What can you take from it?
Innovate democratic structures based on natural human processes.

Where it applies

  • international policy
  • social reform

Putting it to work

  • design participatory global institutions
  • integrate biological insights

Questions to consider

  • Can biology truly guide political systems?
  • What evidence supports this claim?

Another view

The link between biology and democracy is speculative.

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