Only the Editions Dating Back to His First Period Are to Be Considered Consistent With a Dialectical Materialistic View Reich's Ideas Like Those of His Mentor Freud Followed a Descending Path the Main Cause Seems to Be the Same in Both of Their Cases Namely the Refusal to Maintain Political Criticism in Reich's Case It Was the Refusal to Oppose Stalinism That First Led Him to Revise His Theories and Then to Abandon Them the Pronounced Sexual Content of the Orgonomic Theory Gave Him a Reputation as a Sexual Pervert in Later Trials the Charge of Being Part of a Communist Plot Was Added Desperate Reich Attempted to Defend Himself by Rejecting His Communist Past and by Trying to Appear Even More Anti-Communist Than His Prosecutors in the End He Was Totally Unable to Successfully Defend Himself Due to His Suicidal Plunge Into the Idealist Ideology of the Ruling Class Which Both Then and Now Equates Communism With Stalinism He Eventually Became Completely Unhinged and Paranoid After Years of Court Trials He Was Sent to Prison He Died Soon After in 1957 Wilhelm Reich's Synthesis of Marxism and Psychoanalysis Free PDFs of Reich's Collected Works in German English Portuguese and Spanish Thechar RIP