The Hope Of Revolution-an Exploration Of Fromm’s Theory On Liberation

Erich.Fromm is a prominent member of Frankfurt School, his thought is not only unique within theschool, but also shows originality in the whole camp of western marxist camp in the20th century.He paidattention to the“isolated morden people”through his life,and he dedicated to the criticize of modernsociety and seek the reasons of sick individuals and society,more over,he devoted himself to rebuildsanesociety and cure individuals,he’s famous as a “human dreamer” because of his ideal and romantichumanistic socialistic liberation theory.As a psychologist, Fromm captured modern people’s painfulsituation:material wealth,mental suffering; as a sociologist and philosopher,Fromm searched in the reasonsand revealed the industrial society’s anonymous manipulations on persons that leads to alienation and thedistortion of personality,on this basis, Fromm criticed the modern captial society,taking human nature asyardstick,at the same time,he put his achievements of lifelong psychological analyst practices into thetheory of humanistic marxism——by his own understanding,put forward his liberation theoy,whichincluding two parts——social reform and revolution of personal character. Although Fromm’s theory ofliberation is deviated from marxism because its basis of philosophy,and his liberation path also dismissedmarxist violent revolution,only improving in the interior of capital society,doomed to fail to achieve itsexpections, his concern for human destiny, the active exploration of the future of the mankind,thereasonable compounds of his thoery, the principle and specific method also worth to study, even if hispurpose is to improve the capitalism but it’s not against the socialism,perhapes,have a reference value to theconstruction of socialism.This paper separated into four parts: the first part is the chief introduction of Fromm,in the timeground, trying to outline his personal experience and the thought development; The second part is theenvironment of Fromm’s liberation theory,stating its formation and devopment in its background of timeand field; The third part is the specific content of the liberation theory; The fourth part is the evaluation offromm’s theory of liberation.