num_pages: 461
description: The culmination of Fromm's social &amp; political philosophy was his book The Sane Society, published in 1955, which argued in favor of humanistic &amp; democratic socialism. Building primarily upon the early works of Karl Marx, Fromm sought to reemphasise the ideal of freedom, missing from most Soviet Marxism, &amp; more frequently found in the writings of libertarian socialists &amp; liberal theoreticians. Fromm's brand of socialism rejected both Western capitalism &amp; Soviet communism, which he saw as dehumanizing &amp; 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 &amp; his humanist messages to the USA &amp; Western European publics. In the early 1960s, Fromm published two books dealing with Marxist thoughts (Marx's Concept of Man &amp; Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx &amp; Freud). In 1965, working to stimulate the Western &amp; 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.
language: English, Old (ca.450-1100)
title: Socialist Humanism: An International Symposium
titlecomplete: Socialist Humanism: An International Symposium
genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 36
publisher: Doubleday/Anchor (Garden City, NY)