The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

Described by Elizabeth Danto as a large man with a cantankerous style who managed to look scruffy and elegant at the same time he tried to reconcile psychoanalysis with Marxism arguing that neurosis is rooted in physical sexual and socio-economic conditions and in particular in a lack of what he called "orgastic potency. He lived and worked out of an apartment on Berggasse 7 the street where Freud lived at no. This is proved by the fact that tumors in all parts of the body are disappearing or diminishing.

S. He died in jail of heart failure just over a year later days before he was due to apply for parole.