Abstract

Not since Wilhelm Reich founded the Sexpol movement (Sexual Economy and Politics), which conducted sex education among German workers in the early thirties, has Marxism dealt concretely with sexuality and class struggle. Reimut Reiche attempts to resume this difficult task. As former president of the German Socialist Students League (SDS), he writes on the basis of the struggles of that movement. Radicals will find in his preface to this English translation (written in May 1970) a close parallel between events in the German movement and the New Left in the U.S. The German movement reached its peak in the early summer of 1968; by the summer of 1969 sectarianism was rampant.