This book is an essay on the politics of great powers and the international situation in the Cold War period. Fromm, an expert psychoanalyst and close observer of the psychological substrate of political activity, does not limit himself to establishi ...
This book is an essay on the politics of great powers and the international situation in the Cold War period. Fromm, an expert psychoanalyst and close observer of the psychological substrate of political activity, does not limit himself to establishing the 'facts' of international politics. He separates 'facts from fiction', in his own words, and shows how pathological forms of political thought and 'resistance' are obstacles that hinder a proper understanding of political reality.
With this approach, Fromm examines and questions, one after another, the assumptions on which the West based its foreign policy in the early 1960s. After examining the role of the Soviet Union, the former colonial peoples of the Third World, the Chinese communist model, and the rise of Germany on the world political and economic stage, Fromm reaches this triple conclusion: that the Soviet Union and the United States were condemned to understand politically; that, in the West, the 'rebirth of the spirit of humanism' was the only solution to the general crisis of values; and, finally, that if general disarmament and a modus vivendi between the superpowers were not achieved, nuclear cataclysm would be inevitable.
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