I find Eleanor Fischer's questions brilliant, putting most interviewers of great intellectuals to shame. It's interesting what Fromm has to say about Marcuse and the New Left. I've always felt that Marcuse was much more an orthodox type of Marxist than most intellectuals were willing to acknowledge or admit. Fromm's insight about consumerism in the US is certainly relevant today, but his view of "malaise" and its affects on the working class can be misleading, a reason why neo-liberals and liberals today cannot seem to or are unwilling to even attempt to bridge the gap between themselves and the working class.
Fromm here criticizes the New Left from leftist positions, because he was a radical and orthodox freudo-marxist who actively worked on all the conceptual milestones of subverting Western culture into communism. He did it in a very intelligent and perfidious way, using beautiful words. He closely cooperated with deviant and sexual maniac Wilhelm Reich, the late student-turned-enemy of Freud. Fromm's school of cultural subversion of society works through sexualization, leveraging the most important human instinct. This is an adaptation of Reich's psychology into sociology, and weaponization of sexuality for political reasons. This is how cultured, ordered and decent past societies we can now only see in old movies are turned into disorder, degradation, deviations and broken identities which can be observed in the West. Such destroyed societies can then easily be played politically. This is the Frankfurt School's and the New School's academic work. The same techniques were adapted and used by KGB as cultural subversion warfare. Check Yuri Bezmenov's (ex-KGB fled subversion agent) lectures from early 80s. All this is must-know to understand contemporary state of culture and societies.
Kojak . Thank you for the clear and accurate account of what these Marxists intended and accomplished. Maybe a few of the people, who mocked you here a year ago, might be rethinking their attitude. I lived through all of this cultural destruction, from 1960's to present, in San Francisco, Ca. You have ailed it!
Such an interesting interview, somehow very timeless and relevant for today.
This tremendous audio education at its finest. 1968
@Harold Cheeseburger LOL , you meant brainwashing 🙄
Pure wisdom. I wonder if he would have any hope today.
Any critic of modernity back then if alive today would have a stroke. The cancer grew amok.
there is always hope!
thank you.
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
Accurate
as long as there are rich to exterminate, life has purpose
I find Eleanor Fischer's questions brilliant, putting most interviewers of great intellectuals to shame. It's interesting what Fromm has to say about Marcuse and the New Left. I've always felt that Marcuse was much more an orthodox type of Marxist than most intellectuals were willing to acknowledge or admit. Fromm's insight about consumerism in the US is certainly relevant today, but his view of "malaise" and its affects on the working class can be misleading, a reason why neo-liberals and liberals today cannot seem to or are unwilling to even attempt to bridge the gap between themselves and the working class.
Fromm here criticizes the New Left from leftist positions, because he was a radical and orthodox freudo-marxist who actively worked on all the conceptual milestones of subverting Western culture into communism. He did it in a very intelligent and perfidious way, using beautiful words. He closely cooperated with deviant and sexual maniac Wilhelm Reich, the late student-turned-enemy of Freud. Fromm's school of cultural subversion of society works through sexualization, leveraging the most important human instinct. This is an adaptation of Reich's psychology into sociology, and weaponization of sexuality for political reasons. This is how cultured, ordered and decent past societies we can now only see in old movies are turned into disorder, degradation, deviations and broken identities which can be observed in the West. Such destroyed societies can then easily be played politically. This is the Frankfurt School's and the New School's academic work. The same techniques were adapted and used by KGB as cultural subversion warfare. Check Yuri Bezmenov's (ex-KGB fled subversion agent) lectures from early 80s. All this is must-know to understand contemporary state of culture and societies.
Kojak so you have not heard a word man said.
ordered, cultured and decent past societies seen in old movies?
phew...
who loves you baby?
How about some old tv? STAHHV-ROZ!
Kojak . Thank you for the clear and accurate account of what these Marxists intended and accomplished.
Maybe a few of the people, who mocked you here a year ago, might be rethinking their attitude. I lived through all of this cultural destruction, from 1960's to present, in San Francisco, Ca. You have ailed it!
Found the one who clearly never read a word Fromm wrote