Posted by Sigismund on November 18, 2009, at 15:14:19
In reply to Fromm, the Schizoid, and the New World Order., posted by IntendedMispelling on November 18, 2009, at 0:24:47
This is reminding me of my youth. In 1970 at university all the failed solutions to the problems of Russia were displayed in the propaganda of the various groups, on the left side of which were the self-management groups and the anarchists, and Erich Fromm was the author of choice for the self- management group. In the middle were those Frankfurt School authors who were not widely read, and on the right, Marx, Lenin and (not widely loved) even Stalin. The aristocrats among intellectuals studied medicine and learned German on the side to read Marx in the original. Erich Fromm feels a bit dated now, I don't know why, although I can't fault that first quote. Everyone read him anyway....'Fear of Freedom', 'The Art of Loving'. Cigarettes were 40c a packet and 20c would buy you a fair bit of petrol.
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