[lbo-talk] Creeping Fascism

Andy F andy274 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 29 05:18:07 PST 2007


On Dec 29, 2007 12:41 AM, Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> quoted Eric Fromm:


> "The feature common to all authoritarian thinking is the conviction that life
> is determined by forces outside of man's own self, his interest, his wishes.
> The only possible happiness lies in the submission to these forces. The
> powerlessness of man is the leitmotif of masochistic philosophy."

Yet these are all diametrically opposite from American ideology.

Does he say anything about self-rightous self deception?

-- Andy



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