The astonishing thing is not that some people steal or that others occasionally go out on strike, but rather that all those who are starving do not steal as a regular practice, and all those who are exploited are not continually out on strike: after centuries of exploitation, why do people still tolerate being humiliated and enslaved, to such a point, indeed, that they actually want humiliation and slavery not only for others but for themselves?

The Mass Psychology of Fascism Wilhelm Reich
Massenpsychologie des Faschismus (1933), Auszüge/ Hörbuch

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