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Kapital i fasizam [Capital and Fascism,

  • Fascism cannot be discussed without reference to the broader socioeconomic context of capitalist production in which it arises. At the same time, the thesis according to which fascism is the most destructive alternative to capitalism--so that liberal capitalist democracy must be preserved as a lesser evil--is untenable. In his Flight From Freedom E. FROMM contents himself with an abstract critique of fascism, avoiding a thorough discussion of its prerequisite--bourgeois socioeconomic relations, and seeking its genesis in Luther's teachings (that man should sacrifice doubt, his own self, and the uncertainty of freedom to religion and authority for the sake of the certainty and security which God offers). In fact, the sadomasochist personality that FROMM discovers as characteristic of fascism, arises in capitalist social relations. The personality which rejects its own self and craves rescue and security in masochistic identification with an authority beyond itself is an expression of the repressed passion for sadistic authority over men and things which capitalism engenders. Whereas, under capitalism, the majority of the people are depersonalized by a power standing above them (capital), the passion will also develop to grasp that power, or, at least, identify with it. T. Parsons and J. K. Galbraith indirectly support the view that capitalism is a prerequisite for fascism because it molds a personality type which is likely to accept a fascist orientation. By postulating that the potentially fascist personality, as described by FROMM, is functional (Parsons) or a solution to class antagonisms (Galbraith) the two modern bourgeois apologists show that functionalism and technocratism are both prerequisites for a new, pacific form of social fascism.

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Author:D. Sokolovic
Parent Title (Serbocroatic):Sociologija, Vol. 18 (No. 1-2, 1976), pp. 95-112.
Document Type:Articles
Language:Serbocroatic
Year of first Publication:1976
Release Date:2012/12/13
Format:no copy existent / keine Kopie vorhanden
IdNo:Sokolovic_D_1976
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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