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“What must be answered is: Why do the masses allow themselves to be politically swindled? The masses had every possibility of evaluating the propaganda of the various parties. Why didn’t they see that, while promising the workers that the owners of the means of the production would be misappropriated, Hitler promised the capitalists that their rights would be protected?”

“Thus, the practical problem of mass psychology is to activate the passive majority of the population, which always helps political reaction to achieve victory, and to eliminate those inhibitions that run counter to the development of the will to freedom born of the socio-economic situation.” —

“The suppression of one’s primitive material needs compasses a different result than the suppression of one’s sexual needs. The former invites to rebellion, whereas the latter- inasmuch as it causes sexual needs to be repressed, with-draws them from consciousness and anchors itself as a moral defense- prevents rebellion against BOTH forms of suppression.”