Hi Davor:
Are you saying Erich Fromm wasn't a Marxist of the first order? To those who
would like to decide for themselves the answer to that question, I refer
them to "Human Nature and Social Theory" -- a letter by Erich Fromm at
http://www.marxists.org/archive/fromm/works/1969/human.htm
The site itself should give you a clue, but I quote from the letter: "I
believe my work to be closer to Marx's theory than you think."
As for "resentment" against socialist ideas, I resent loss of liberty to
social engineers whose willingness to impose their morality of "love"
by physical force knows no limit, as history clearly proves.
Platt
> Hi Rog:
>
> Don't be too upset with John B. He is a great fan of Erich Fromm who,
> as I learned from a brief search on the net, was a Marxist of the first
> order. Take a look at:
>
> http://www.idsi.net/~lepore/fromm/
>
> ''There you will find quotes that are not only pro-Marxist and pro-feminist
> but anti-democracy, anti-capitalism, anti-consumerism, anti-
> materialism . . . well, you name it''.
>
> ''It is amazing how much of the hate America rhetoric on this site can be
> traced right back to Fromm and his fellow travelers. Yes, the flower
> children of the sixties, who Pirsig rightfully condemned for their
> stupidity and immorality, are alive and well and still trying to spread
> their Marxist collectivist theories in the name of love. Must be that
> Cuban paradise under Fidel that holds a strange attraction''.
>
> Did you guys actually ever read a Fromm book? ''The flower children of the
> sixties, you want to link Fromm to them?'' Please read ''Marx, Freud and
> freedom'' by this author and say these words again!
> Platt I believe that if you read Fromm you will understand a lot more of
> yourself and certain ideas and their moral 'validity'.
>
> I'm beginning to believe that every leftist opinion in your eyes is immoral
> per definition! I know that 'left' means something different in the US as
> here in W-Europe(the Netherlands at least!), but why the ressentment?
>
> Davor( a Fromm reader! Proud to be!)
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