A Study Of Fromm’s Ideas On Human Freedom And Emancipation

Fromm’s lifelong focus has been on the analysis of the dilemma of human existence,the critique of the current state of society,and the proposal of prescriptions for its salvation.Faced with the pathological Western society,Fromm devoted himself to finding answers for the salvation of society in various disciplines.In this regard,Fromm’s thought and his achievements have an important place in Western Marxism,and the study of Fromm and his writings is of great significance to the study of people and society at that time.The idea of liberal emancipation is the main element that runs through Fromm’s entire ideological perspective and is an important contribution to his Marxist theory of emancipation.His lifelong focus was on the "isolated modern man," and he devoted himself to exploring the root causes of social pathologies and the existence of sick individuals,and finally proposed a prescription for saving sick Western society.The study of Fromm’s ideas not only deepens our understanding of Marxism,but also helps us understand the nature of capitalism and the superiority of socialism,and facilitates the essential criticism of the alienation of capitalist society.First,the thesis explores the ideological origins of Fromm’s liberal emancipation.The first task of the study of Fromm’s liberal emancipation idea is to achieve an exploration of its social background and theoretical origins.The heavy blows of the two world wars and the coexistence of prosperity and crisis in post-war capitalism have made people in capitalist society face the dilemma of being used as tools and suffering from relentless competition and pressure.While focusing on the development of Western capitalist society,Fromm focuses on drawing the essence of theories from Freudian psychoanalysis and Marxist theories and using them for himself,finally forming the idea of liberal liberation.Second,the dissertation analyzes and studies Fromm’s ideological perspectives on sound society and sound man.Combining the analysis of Fromm’s multiple texts,the thesis begins with Fromm’s goal of liberating human freedom,i.e.,building a sound society and cultivating sound human beings.Finally,he proposes that the path to freedom and liberation is through psychological and social revolutions,pointing out that psychological revolution is the revelation of the social unconscious and the cultivation of love and rationality,while social revolution is the simultaneous change in the economic,political and cultural fields,aiming at building a new society that can better adapt to the new man.Humanity is the starting and ending point of Fromm’s theory of freedom and emancipation.The goal of liberal emancipation is the return of human nature,which greatly highlights the status of human beings.But people in social life are always faced with various existential dilemmas,so the construction of a sound society is the need for the return of sound human beings.However,Fromm’s placing the liberal emancipation of human beings in the field of human-social relations is not in line with the actual social development.Third,the thesis provides a comparative study of the relevant discourses of Fromm and Marx.Although Fromm has certain differences with Marxist theory,his theory of human nature and human emancipation involved in liberal emancipation enriches the overall alienation of Marxism with a microscopic perspective,and there are reasonable points that have positive effects on the framing of today’s society and the shaping of sound human beings,and have important practical values for the development of contemporary China.From a dialectical point of view,Fromm’s idea of liberal emancipation also has certain shortcomings,which,together with its inherent utopian nature,lead to deviations from Marxism in the establishment of the goal of emancipation and the planning of the path to emancipation,and its proposed program for a sound society does not have a Marxist practical nature.