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lf a guy cannot stand liberty, he'll probably turn fascist. This, in the fewest possible words, is the essential debate in this modem basic, Get away from from Liberty. The author, Erich Fromm, is a distinguished psychologist, later of Berlin and Heidelberg, now of NEW YORK. He can be applied the psychoanalytical solution to the illness in our civilization which expresses itself within an abject submission to dictatorship. It is true that the surge of democracy establish men free and taken to a finish the specialist of the middle ages condition and the middle ages church. But it brought into living a society in which a man seems isolated from his fellows, where connections in an industrial years are impersonal, where insecurity replaces a sense of owed. This sense of isolation may drive a person to one of various forms of get away from. lt may drive a people to seek get away from in blind devotion to a leader, in utter submission with an all-powerful condition, into a barbarous and sadistic program of hostility against minority teams or neighbor countries. Few books because the surge of the dictators have thrown such light upon our times. Few catalogs have penetrated so obviously into the factors behind fascism and Nazism - and into the inherent qualities of a democracy. In his psychoanalysis of the sociable scene, the author makes a fresh contribution to psychology by modifying the essential principles of Freud in putting a purely biological orientation by way of a cultural one. To all or any who see that democracy today encounters its gravest hour, Dr. Fromm illustrates the essential character of the risk and the nature of democracy's responsibility. By its brilliant exposition of the modern social arena Avoid from Liberty will help clarify many of today's most perplexing problems.
