''Listen, Little Man!'' (
German
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: ''Rede an den kleinen Mann'') is a 1945 essay by
Austro-Hungarian
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Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich ( , ; 24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) was an Austrian Doctor of Medicine, doctor of medicine and a psychoanalysis, psychoanalyst, along with being a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. The author ...
outlining his
libertarian socialist political philosophy, in particular its views on
direct action
Direct action originated as a political activist term for economic and political acts in which the actors use their power (e.g. economic or physical) to directly reach certain goals of interest, in contrast to those actions that appeal to oth ...
as the only means for the
working class
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to achieve liberation. It was translated into
English
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in 1948 by
Theodore Peter Wolfe
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External links
*https://archive.org/details/ListenLittleMan
{{Wilhelm Reich
1945 essays
Marxist books
Works by Wilhelm Reich