Quotes from Klaus Theweleit

It looks very much, as if these men are likely to assign a penis to a certain type of woman (the proletarian whore) whose penis they fear as an instrument of castration. The men experience Communism as a direct assault on their genitals!

We need to understand and combat fascism not because so many fell victim to it, not because it stands in the way of the triumph of socialism, not even because it might return again, but primarily because, as a form of reality production that is constantly present and possible under determinate conditions, it can, and does, become our production. The crudest examples of this are to be seen in the male-female relations, which are also relations of production.