


Only in very primitive religions were religiosity and sexuality identical. The basic religious idea in all patriarchal religions is the negation of the sexual needs. Political irrationalism which infests, deforms and destroys our lives, is – in the strictly psychiatric sense–a perversion of social life, caused by the ostracizing of the natural life functions and by their exclusion from the determination of social life. Consequently, they are diametrically opposed to any kind of irrationalism. They can inherently be nothing but rational. Natural love, vitally necessary work and scientific search are rational life functions. But the pulse of human society would stopand not return should the natural life functions of love, work and knowledge cease for only one day. Political systems come and go without stopping or fundamentally changing the social process. Furthermore, such consciousness of responsibility alone will, in the course of time, bring the institutions of human society into harmony with the natural functions of work democracy. If they are allowed to grow, they will sooner or later bring about social chaos. The growth of this consciousness of social responsibility is the most important prerequisite for the prevention of the cancer-like growth of political systems in the social organism. This consciousness may be present or it may grow in an organic manner, like a tree or an animal organism. It depends on the consciousness on the part of the working people in all professions of their responsibility for the social process. Work democracy cannot be imposed on people as a political system.
