@book{LangmanLundskow, author = {Langman, Lauren and Lundskow, George}, title = {God, Guns, Gold and Glory. American Character and its Discontents, Brill, 2016, 428ff.}, abstract = {America, beginning as a small group of devout Puritan settlers, ultimately became the richest, most powerful Empire in the history of the world, but having reached that point, is now in a process of implosion and decay. This book, inspired by Frankfurt School Critical Theory, especially Erich Fromm, offers a unique historical, cultural and characterological analysis of American national character and its underlying psychodynamics. Specifically, this analysis looks at the persistence of Puritan religion, as well as the extolling of male toughness and America's unbridled pursuit of wealth. Finally, its self image of divinely blessed exceptionalism has fostered vast costs in lives and wealth. But these qualities of its national character are now fostering both a decline of its power and a transformation of its underlying social character. This suggests that the result will be a changing social character that enables a more democratic, tolerant and inclusive society, one that will enable socialism, genuine, participatory democracy and a humanist framework of meaning. This book is relevant to understanding America's past, present and future.}, language = {en} } @article{LundskowLangman, author = {Lundskow, George N. and Langman, Lauren}, title = {Erich Fromm and Contemporary American Politics}, series = {Free Associations - Psychoanalysis and Culture, Media, Groups, Politics, No. 73, September 2018, pp. 7-22.}, journal = {Free Associations - Psychoanalysis and Culture, Media, Groups, Politics, No. 73, September 2018, pp. 7-22.}, abstract = {Donald Trump and his followers who never waiver stand at 41.5\% of the US population (Fivethirtyeight.com), the embodiment of a lust for power and fame and the minions who crave fulfillment through his arrogant and belligerent antics. Speaking from the mid-Twentieth century, Fromm offers a starting point for our discussion of the present day, centered on the social-psychological intersection where everyday people recreate the systems upon which they both depend, and which may very well destroy them.}, language = {en} } @article{Lundskow, author = {Lundskow, George}, title = {The Necessity of Progressive Religion to Foment Progressive Change: A Frommian Argument}, series = {K. Durkin and J. Braune (Eds.), Erich Fromm's Critical Theory. Hope, Humanism, and the Future, New York (Bloomsbury) 2020, pp. 52-71.}, journal = {K. Durkin and J. Braune (Eds.), Erich Fromm's Critical Theory. Hope, Humanism, and the Future, New York (Bloomsbury) 2020, pp. 52-71.}, language = {en} } @article{LangmanLundskow, author = {Langman, Lauren and Lundskow, George}, title = {Social Character, Social Change and the Social Future}, series = {K. Durkin and J. Braune (Eds.), Erich Fromm's Critical Theory. Hope, Humanism, and the Future, New York (Bloomsbury) 2020, pp. 194-215.}, journal = {K. Durkin and J. Braune (Eds.), Erich Fromm's Critical Theory. Hope, Humanism, and the Future, New York (Bloomsbury) 2020, pp. 194-215.}, language = {en} }