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„Всички хора с добра воля или, по-скоро, всички хора, които обичат живота, трябва да образуват един единен фронт за оцеляването, за продължаването на живота и на цивилизацията. С целия научен и технически напредък, който човекът е постигнал, той е задължен да разреши проблема за глада и бедността и може да си позволи да опитва решения в различни посоки. Има само едно нещо, което той не може да си позволи – и то е да продължава с приготовленията за война, която, този път, ще доведе до катастрофа. Все още има време да предвидим следващото историческо развитие и променим нашата посока. Но ако не действаме скоро, ние ще загубим силата на предприемчивостта и обстоятелствата, институциите и оръжията, които сме сътворили, ще надделеят и ще решават нашата съдба.“
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Published January 1, 2021
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Erich Fromm
447 books5,299 followersErich Fromm, Ph.D. (Sociology, University of Heidelberg, 1922) was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the United States. He was one of the founders of The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.
Fromm explored the interaction between psychology and society, and held various professorships in psychology in the U.S. and Mexico in the mid-20th century.
Fromm's theory is a rather unique blend of Freud and Marx. Freud, of course, emphasized the unconscious, biological drives, repression, and so on. In other words, Freud postulated that our characters were determined by biology. Marx, on the other hand, saw people as determined by their society, and most especially by their economic systems.
Fromm explored the interaction between psychology and society, and held various professorships in psychology in the U.S. and Mexico in the mid-20th century.
Fromm's theory is a rather unique blend of Freud and Marx. Freud, of course, emphasized the unconscious, biological drives, repression, and so on. In other words, Freud postulated that our characters were determined by biology. Marx, on the other hand, saw people as determined by their society, and most especially by their economic systems.
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March 16, 2016
A very interesting investigation into the nature of the Cold War and the threat from the existence of nuclear weapons. Erich Fromm conducts a detailed analysis of the soviet system under Kruschev to prove that the Soviet Union is no more a revolutionary force, but a conservative bureaucratic apparatus. He then criticises the American foreign policy makers for aggressive tactics towards the communist world and the support of dictatorships in the developing countries, two facts which allow the Soviet Union and China to gain more and more allies. At the end of the book he suggests a general nuclear disarmament as the only way towards a peaceful future, as the very existence of nuclear weapons will sooner or later, either intentionally or accidentally, result in a war which would put an end to human civilization.
February 18, 2021
I am working my way through several Erich Fromm’s books. This book was written out of concern for the threat of nuclear Armageddon. I felt Fromm was blinded by utopianism in seeing the marco of human affairs and failing to reconcile this with the individuals one sees. He failed to observe the depravity of the human heart, those individual who do not seek psychotherapy.
It is now almost 50 years old written in the Kennedy administration and published the year of (before) Cuban Missile Crisis when the world was as close as it got to Nuclear War. This was written before Solzhenitsyn published the Gulag Archipelago and made the case for the moral equivalency of Soviet Communism and Western Capitalism. Interesting as we are witnessing the rise of an increasingly authoritarian Chinese State and the re-emergence of an authoritarian Russia. Fromm was shockingly naive with regards to China at the moment Mao was murdering millions of his Chinese people. He was either ignorant or downplaying the worst excesses of Mao's regime, preferring a Rousseauian view of what was happening in China. He was prepared to sacrifice the desires of the (East) German people for freedom and democracy on the alter of “World Peace” (by letting the Soviets do what they wanted, which kind of happened). He gave an understandable argument of a German people again becoming militarised if allowed freedom. We live in interesting times.
It continues the development of my belief that Psychotherapist should concentrate on individuals or families and stay away of large groups and global affairs (and politics). People of psychological backgrounds should be cautious in positions of power as the adoption of ‘unconditional positive regard’ leads to a reflexive naivete to see people in the most optimistic light, and blind to the malevolence of others.
It is now almost 50 years old written in the Kennedy administration and published the year of (before) Cuban Missile Crisis when the world was as close as it got to Nuclear War. This was written before Solzhenitsyn published the Gulag Archipelago and made the case for the moral equivalency of Soviet Communism and Western Capitalism. Interesting as we are witnessing the rise of an increasingly authoritarian Chinese State and the re-emergence of an authoritarian Russia. Fromm was shockingly naive with regards to China at the moment Mao was murdering millions of his Chinese people. He was either ignorant or downplaying the worst excesses of Mao's regime, preferring a Rousseauian view of what was happening in China. He was prepared to sacrifice the desires of the (East) German people for freedom and democracy on the alter of “World Peace” (by letting the Soviets do what they wanted, which kind of happened). He gave an understandable argument of a German people again becoming militarised if allowed freedom. We live in interesting times.
It continues the development of my belief that Psychotherapist should concentrate on individuals or families and stay away of large groups and global affairs (and politics). People of psychological backgrounds should be cautious in positions of power as the adoption of ‘unconditional positive regard’ leads to a reflexive naivete to see people in the most optimistic light, and blind to the malevolence of others.
March 12, 2008
کتاب در 1961(دوره ی خروشچف و کندی و کوبا و چین) نوشته شده و بیشتر حول و حوش جنگ سرد و روابط غرب و شرق می چرخد، حرف هایی که بسیاری شان، دیگر کشش ندارند، و برخی از تجزیه و تحلیل ها بسیار نحیف اند. با این همه کتاب دارای اطلاعات جامعی ست در مورد سیاست های وقت و مساله ی جهان و جنبش های استقلال در آسیا، آفریقا و آمریکای لاتین.
به احتمالی "آیا انسان پیروز خواهد شد" به ترجمه ی عزت الله فولادوند، 1362
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April 17, 2017
با توجه به اسم کتابانتظار دیگه ای داشتم...ولی صرف بررسی کمونیسم و مارکس و وضعیت قرن پیش آمریکا و شوروی و چین بود...به عنوان یک کتاب تحلیلی تاریخی قرن پیش غرب و ایالات متحده شوروی خوب بود و تا حدودی بررسی های جامعه شناختی و روانشناختی از اوضاع بشر در قرن بیستم داشت...
خیلی وقت ها بیش از حد تخصصی میشد و با اینکه نیاز بود و جالب اما خسته کننده میشد!
خیلی وقت ها بیش از حد تخصصی میشد و با اینکه نیاز بود و جالب اما خسته کننده میشد!
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September 30, 2008Fue el primero que lei voluntariamente a los 18
Todo lo que se y lo que quiero saber y solucionar de la vida, empezo con este libro ,que lo encontre en un mueble del comedor, es de mi mama, paro ella ya no se acuerda de que se trataba....
Todo lo que se y lo que quiero saber y solucionar de la vida, empezo con este libro ,que lo encontre en un mueble del comedor, es de mi mama, paro ella ya no se acuerda de que se trataba....
July 30, 2020
A treasure house of wisdom
This book is as relevant today as it was 60 years ago. It is almost impossible to imagine that Erich Fromm wrote this book in 1961. In it he destroys the myths that the Soviet Union was the evil empire and the US the shining savior of democracy. In it, he shows that both were far more similar than different and that they could and should find common cause. I grew up in the 60s and never once in the media, school or university came across these ideas and the facts from which Fromm drew these ideas. Of course, the Soviet Union now no longer exists and we have replaced that bugaboo with a new one “Putin’s Russia”. The names change but the song remains the same.
This book is as relevant today as it was 60 years ago. It is almost impossible to imagine that Erich Fromm wrote this book in 1961. In it he destroys the myths that the Soviet Union was the evil empire and the US the shining savior of democracy. In it, he shows that both were far more similar than different and that they could and should find common cause. I grew up in the 60s and never once in the media, school or university came across these ideas and the facts from which Fromm drew these ideas. Of course, the Soviet Union now no longer exists and we have replaced that bugaboo with a new one “Putin’s Russia”. The names change but the song remains the same.
March 20, 2022
Amazing book and investigation around the USSR vs USA connection. About how we should focus on humans and people, on the connection, and on the future. How we can turn the world into a better place with a focus on demilitarization rather than the build-up of nuclear weapons. It also gives great insight into how powerful Germany could be and on the relationship with China. Would recommend to anyone to read it, especially in these times where the war for Ukraine is happening and stakes are high.
August 27, 2019
Not my favorite book by Fromm. It has the best account of life in the Soviet Union I've read. It manages to appear "fair-and-balanced", even when critiquing communism. I has great insights into the obviously irrational mind frame of nuclear war. I guess I was expecting more, however it is great sample of a moment in history.
June 24, 2020
It's amazing that you can still write an enlightening book despite having the facts wrong. In author's defence everyone writing about communism ended up with egg on their face a couple decades later when the secrecy was pierced. The author lived long enough to see glimpses of the truth so I'm curious to see if I can find any reaction in his later books and whether he changed his opinions.
October 8, 2025
kateşizm , Mao Tse-Tung, Misunderstanding of Marxism, Pathological thinking of Communist, Disarmament, Khrushchevite system, ıs Sovyets goal is World domination? Diff between China and Russian Communism. Freud's thesis on human versatility and its connection to lying behaviour of humans.
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January 1, 2010
...affective part of man ...his character structure, which is molded so that man wants to do what he has to do...patterns of thought are rooted in patterns of feeling...
Those most opposed to fundamental change have been the elites, which profited most from the existing order and hence were unwilling to give up their privileges voluntarily.
I believe something to be true, not because I have arrived at the thought by my own thinking...but because it has been suggested to me. In automaton-thinking I may be under the illusion that my thoughts are my own when actually I have adopted them because they have been presented by sources that carry authority ... All of modern thought manipulation ...makes use of the suggestive-hypnoid techniques which produce thoughts and feelings in people without making them aware that their thoughts are not their own.
...emotionally we are still living in the Stone Age.
...in reality we care mainly about money, comfort, health and education, and very little about God.
The educational system serves to prepare the individual for the function he is to assume in society.
Marx speaks of free time as the true realm of freedom, which begins when work ends, and in which man can unfold his own powers as an aim in itself, not as a means for the end of production.
...as high-class escape literature, this literature satisfies the unquenchable thirst for authentic human experience which remains unsatisfied in the practise, also does not endanger it.
...workers own activity is experienced as something not belonging to him....man cease to be a crippled monstrosity and becomes a fully developed human being is the aim of socialism.
Socialismus is a resistance movement against the destruction of love in social reality.
...the methods of psychological suggestion and manipulation that give the individual the illusion of having and following his own convinctions, while his decisions are in reality made by the elite of decision makers.
socialistic, aiming at basic economic changes for the benefit of the broad masses of population
We have no vision of something new, no aim that truly inspires us.
Those most opposed to fundamental change have been the elites, which profited most from the existing order and hence were unwilling to give up their privileges voluntarily.
I believe something to be true, not because I have arrived at the thought by my own thinking...but because it has been suggested to me. In automaton-thinking I may be under the illusion that my thoughts are my own when actually I have adopted them because they have been presented by sources that carry authority ... All of modern thought manipulation ...makes use of the suggestive-hypnoid techniques which produce thoughts and feelings in people without making them aware that their thoughts are not their own.
...emotionally we are still living in the Stone Age.
...in reality we care mainly about money, comfort, health and education, and very little about God.
The educational system serves to prepare the individual for the function he is to assume in society.
Marx speaks of free time as the true realm of freedom, which begins when work ends, and in which man can unfold his own powers as an aim in itself, not as a means for the end of production.
...as high-class escape literature, this literature satisfies the unquenchable thirst for authentic human experience which remains unsatisfied in the practise, also does not endanger it.
...workers own activity is experienced as something not belonging to him....man cease to be a crippled monstrosity and becomes a fully developed human being is the aim of socialism.
Socialismus is a resistance movement against the destruction of love in social reality.
...the methods of psychological suggestion and manipulation that give the individual the illusion of having and following his own convinctions, while his decisions are in reality made by the elite of decision makers.
socialistic, aiming at basic economic changes for the benefit of the broad masses of population
We have no vision of something new, no aim that truly inspires us.
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