#manforhimself — Public Fediverse posts
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@lymphomation
"We mask our own moral problem from ourselves if we focus our attention on comparing our culture with modes of life which are the negation of the best achievements of humanity, and thus we ignore the fact that we too bow down to power, not that of a dictator and a political bureaucracy allied with him, but to the anonymous power of the market, of success, of public opinion, of 'common sense'—or rather, of common nonsense—and of the machine whose servants we have become." p.248f
— #ErichFromm #ManForHimself (1947) -
@lymphomation
"We mask our own moral problem from ourselves if we focus our attention on comparing our culture with modes of life which are the negation of the best achievements of humanity, and thus we ignore the fact that we too bow down to power, not that of a dictator and a political bureaucracy allied with him, but to the anonymous power of the market, of success, of public opinion, of 'common sense'—or rather, of common nonsense—and of the machine whose servants we have become." p.248f
— #ErichFromm #ManForHimself (1947) -
"The ideas of freedom or democracy deteriorate into nothing but irrational faith once they are not based upon the productive experience of each individual but are presented to him by parties or states which force him to believe in these ideas.
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Man cannot live without faith. The crucial question for our own generation and the next ones is whether this faith will be an irrational faith in leaders, machines, success, or the rational faith in man based on the experiences of our own productive activity."
— Erich Fromm 'Man for Himself' (1947)
#erichfromm #manforhimself -
"The ideas of freedom or democracy deteriorate into nothing but irrational faith once they are not based upon the productive experience of each individual but are presented to him by parties or states which force him to believe in these ideas.
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Man cannot live without faith. The crucial question for our own generation and the next ones is whether this faith will be an irrational faith in leaders, machines, success, or the rational faith in man based on the experiences of our own productive activity."
— Erich Fromm 'Man for Himself' (1947)
#erichfromm #manforhimself