Marx taught that luxury is as much a vice as poverty and that our goal should be to be much, not to have much. (I refer here to the real Marx, the radical humanist, not to the vulgar forgery presented by Soviet communism.) Erich Fromm, “To have or to be” #erich-fromm #fromm #marx #philosophy #psychology #socialism #communism #bourgeois #future #values #quote #ussr
Marx taught that luxury is as much a vice as poverty and that our goal should be to be much, not to have much. (I refer here to the real Marx, the radical humanist, not to the vulgar forgery presented by Soviet communism.)
Erich Fromm, “To have or to be”
#erich-fromm #fromm #marx #philosophy #psychology #socialism #communism #bourgeois #future #values #quote #ussr #cccp #ссср #humanism #խսհմ #սովետ #ֆրոմ #մարքս #էրիխ֊ֆրոմ #փիլիսոփայություն #հոգեբանություն #սոցիալիզմ #կոմունիզմ #ապագա #արժեքներ
Socialism and communism quickly changed from a movement whose aim was a new society and a new man into one whose ideal was a bourgeois life for all, the universalized bourgeois as the men and women of the future.
Erich Fromm, “To have or to be”
#erich-fromm #fromm #philosophy #psychology #socialism #communism #bourgeois #future #values #quote
We use a sort of tag word #neoliberalism to refer to a kind of hyper capitalism that emphasises privatization, deregulation, short term profits at all cost, sort of an entia tax, entia regulation, sort of a diminishment of public goods provision, social safety net idea. So what we critisizing here is that rather than allowing to market to function on top of negotiated values toward ends that have identified by our society, what we see now with this emphasis on neoliberal policies is that the market principles have become #values and the ends, and so they are used to determine all our social policies.
#quote from the #thinkingallowed #bbc #podcast
#quote from the #thinkingallowed #bbc #podcast: We use a sort of tag word #neoliberalism to refer to a kind of hyper capitalism that emphasises privatization, deregulation, short term profits at all cost, sort of an entia tax, entia regulation, sort of a diminishment of public goods provision, social safety net idea. So what we critisizing here is that rather than allowing to market to function on top of negotiated values toward ends that have identified by our society, what we see now with this emphasis on neoliberal policies is that the market principles have become #values and the ends, and so they are used to determine all our social policies.