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Socialist Humanism
by Erich Fromm (Editor)
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The culmination of Fromm's social & political philosophy was his book The Sane Society, published in 1955, which argued in favor of humanistic & democratic socialism. Building primarily upon the early works of Karl Marx, Fromm sought to reemphasise the ideal of freedom, missing from most Soviet Marxism, & more frequently found in the writings of libertarian socialists & liberal theoreticians. Fromm's brand of socialism rejected both Western capitalism & Soviet communism, which he saw as dehumanizing & that resulted in a virtually universal modern phenomenon of alienation. He became one of the founders of socialist humanism, promoting the early writings of Marx & his humanist messages to the USA & Western European publics.
In the early 1960s, Fromm published two books dealing with Marxist thoughts (Marx's Concept of Man & Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx & Freud). In 1965, working to stimulate the Western & Eastern cooperation between Marxist humanists, Fromm published a series of articles entitled Socialist Humanism: An International Symposium. In 1966, the American Humanist Association named him Humanist of the Year. (less)
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Published August 1967 by Allen Lane/Penguin Press (London) (first published 1965)
Original TitleSocialist Humanism
ISBN0713900083 (ISBN13: 9780713900088)
Edition LanguageEnglish
URLhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Fromm
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Socialist Humanism: An International Symposium
L'umanesimo socialista
Humanismo Socialista
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Jul 23, 2009Erik Graff rated it really liked it
Recommends it for: socialists
Recommended to Erik by: Arthur Kazar
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This is one of those books which lay in the shelves for years before I got around to reading it. It may have been given me in high school by an older friend of German-Czech background who knew a lot more than me about international socialist theory. In any case, I was intimidated by it until I'd gotten into reading a lot of Marx and some economics on my own--enough, at least, to attempt to tackle the discussions between this book's covers.
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