After moving to Berlin in November 1930, Reich devoted much of his time and energy to activities, some psychoanalytic in nature, many not, related to the German Communist Party (KPD). While there are hints that [Karl Marx] himself saw the importance of sexuality,17 in general the Communist Party took a strict materialist stance, arguing that the workers' revolution would solve all the problems of humanity. Reich and many others involved in radical sexual reform were very impressed with certain changes in the Soviet Union in the early years following the Revolution: the decriminalization of homosexuality, legalization of abortion, easy divorce, and communal rearing of children. Still he continued to press, both in his writings and lectures, for the Party to recognize the significance of psychoanalysis and, particularly, its insights into the importance of sexuality and the consequences of sexual repression-that is, psycho- analysis as understood by Reich and his Left allies within the movement. Reich played an active role in the formation of the Communist Party-sponsored Einheitsverband für proletarische Sexualreform und Mutterschutz (United Association for Proletar- ian Sexual Reform and the Protection of Mothers, hereafter Einheitsverband) and published numerous articles (both under his own name, under the initials WR and in one case using the pseudonym "Ernst Roner") in the group's organ, Die Warte.18 Though we cannot go into details here, we note that Atina Grossmann's dismissal of Reich's description of his activities in radical sex reform in Germany as a "myth," and her claim that "surviving copies of the journal [i.e., Die Warte] published by the organization Reich claimed to have established never mention him,"19 are mistaken, due perhaps to the material available to her when she first did her research; of the authors who can be identified, no one published more articles in Die Warte than Reich, and the "struggle demands" that were adopted by the Einheitsverband were derived from a speech given by Reich in June 1931