Erich Fromm Quotes
I would define myself as a Marxian, and that means of course also as a humanist.
Fromm, Erich. Interview by Mike Wallace. The Mike Wallace Interview, ABC, 25 May 1958.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio. The Pope was not affected by the “Red Scare” that so many other world leaders has been. Typically most people opposed to Marxism generally thought that those who were Marxists were evil. Pope Francis, candidly observed that many Marxist were good people and well-intended. In his view they were wrong, being naïve or misguided.
Since the end of WWII till the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Bulgarians were part of the Soviet Bloc and operated under communism that was supposedly based on Marxism. However it was not in many critical respects. But few modern Russian style Communists are familiar with or understand Marxism.
Erich Seligmann Fromm was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the US. He was one of the founders of The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.
