"The fear of freedom" excellently discusses the reactions that different societies about freedom.
True leaders:
Fromm argues that the Nazi society has a relationship of authority with their leaders so that they rule over society like a herd of obedient sheep in question. And you are absolutely right, the Nazi as any r authoritarian system is based on that reason, the relationship of authority. But we do not even realize there is also a leader-submissive relationship in our society. We could say that the mainstream media are the leaders, who in one way or another, direct the public opinion towards the most appropriate place according to their position. Therefore, the phenomenon of "automatic compliance" is still occurring in our years. The company believes have your own opinion, when in fact what is happening is that your opinion is being carefully guided to the place that interests the above, to the leaders.
An uncritical society :
The relativism is the lack of critical appraisal of the phenomena, according to Fromm. Relativism is a phenomenon that has occurred since the big media seized power information. Of course, also occurred under authoritarian regimes. But today, the company is loaded with individuals lacking a critical view. Therefore we can say that today's society is very relativized.
The relativism is the lack of critical appraisal of the phenomena, according to Fromm. Relativism is a phenomenon that has occurred since the big media seized power information. Of course, also occurred under authoritarian regimes. But today, the company is loaded with individuals lacking a critical view. Therefore we can say that today's society is very relativized.
alternative Fascism:
According to Fromm, Fascism is presented as a solution to the problems of Germany in the 30's. Was the alternative to the previous political systems. After the fall of authoritarian regimes in Europe, still retained small social groups that supported these ideologies . These groups have survived to this day. Where now with the current economic crisis, are giving similar conditions to those given in the third decade of S.XX. These "political parties" are gaining importance slowly, yet they still do not get a uniform representation in major democratic cameras. In Spain in particular, we have seen how these recent years we have had enough GATHERINGS xenophobic and fascist , which had rarely been given previously.
Democratic Socialism as an alternative:
Democratic socialism is the establishment of a rational economic system that serves society . This should look harmony between centralized and decentralized system for better system performance. There would be wrong to say that this is a political rather difficult to perform, because it would break with all the canons of society. Our society does not keep all a balance between centralization and decentralization, look at the great migratory movements between countries or even the same country, the people leave the countryside to the towns central city.