I have been reading Erich Fromm's Escape from Freedom recently, and to fill in some blanks I went looking for some background on Fromm on the Internet.
Nice Quote
Fromm identified deep feelings of anxiety and powerlessness upon
which Hitler had been able to capitalize. His sadomasochistic message of
love for the strong and hatred for the weak — not to mention a racial
program that raised “true-born” Germans to the pinnacle of the
evolutionary ladder — provided a means of escape from intolerable
psychological burdens experienced on a mass basis.
Escape From Freedom was not merely an analysis of Nazism. At
the heart of its thesis was the notion that capitalism — particularly
in its monopolistic phase — fostered “the development of a personality
which feels powerless and alone, anxious and insecure,” and which is
therefore tempted to surrender its freedom to strongman leaders.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/08/erich-fromm-frankfurt-school-marxism-weimar-germany
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