Research On Erich Fromm’s Socialistic Ideology

The research on socialism is always one of the hot issues to the eastern and western Marxists. This thesis focuses on Fromm, the famous western Marxist’s socialistic ideology as the research object; makes a comprehensive and systematic analysis and interpretation on it. Based on the principle of scientific socialism, this thesis makes a combined research of Fromm’s socialistic ideology and Marxist socialism, aims to grasp the basic tenets of Marxism and understand modern socialistic practice.On the basis of reviewing Fromm’s cultural experience and the socialist ideological source, this thesis discusses Fromm’s socialistic ideology’s theoretical foundation and methodological basis deeply; analyzes Fromm’s criticism on modern capitalism’s "affluent" alienation not meeting prefabricated human nature; investigates the new picture which Fromm looked forward to. At the same time, the thesis gives dialectical comments on Fromm’s socialistic ideology. It argues that, the reasonable components of Fromm is to advocate socialistic positive spirit, strengthen socialism and repudiate capitalism, initiate socialistic ideas of restricted technology and healthy consumption. But his theoretical failure lies in that his thought starts as an abstract theory of human nature, understands the connotation of socialism partially, disregard the reality of ways to reach the future society. Fromm’s socialistic ideology failed to be out of restriction of reason of Utopia; it also belongs to modern utopian socialism and its essence is the humanitarian socialism.Doing research on Fromm’s socialistic ideology can examine differences of existing research furtherly. Under the background of socialistic ideas’ development, promoting to western socialism thoughts’ deepening and grasping the essence of scientific socialism correctly has important theoretical and practical significance to Chinese socialist construction.