A Comparative Study Of Fromm And Marx's Theory On Human Liberation

A history of human civilization is that the human pursues the thorough liberation. Fromm and Marx studied the human's living conditions in capitalist society, regarded this as the starting point, they criticized the people's alienation sharply, their common goal is to realize human liberation from alienation. Fromm regarded people's situation in modern western capitalist society as the starting point, discussed the basic needs of people and social personality, exposed that the modern capitalist society is a comprehensive alienation society, the modern people's characteristic is mainly shown as personality of the morbid state and life style of the morbid state. As to the disease of modern capitalist society and the state of modern people's alienation, he criticized the modern capitalist society deeply, and he proposed a suggestion of people's own transformation and the whole society transformation on politics, economy and culture , in order to realize his goal of the sound society and sound person finally. Marx inspected the person and the human society from the macroscopic angle, elaborated his thought of labor alienation, criticized that the capitalist class implemented cruel exploitation and oppression to proletariat under the capitalist system. As the proletariat's revolutionary teacher, he pointed out the proletariat is the gravedigger of the capitalist class. He maintained that proletariat should overthrow the capitalist system through proletariat's revolution, set up the state power of the proletarian dictatorship, eliminate the class exploitation and oppression finally, realize the goal of communist society that everyone can achieve free, abundant and all-round development, the proletariat and the masses of working people will obtain the thorough liberation.The main content of this thesis is divided into three parts: Part one probes into Fromm and Marx's common foundation about theory of human liberation, it includes three following respects such as regarding realistic person as the starting point, seeking the road of human liberation in the criticism to the capitalism, announcing people's historical process of liberation based on social historical development;Part two explains Fromm and Marx's different imaginations about human liberation , it includes three following respects such as stipulateing different content of human liberation, choosing different road of human liberation, designing different goal of human liberation;Part three mainly analyzes Fromm's contribution and limitation from Marx's visual angle.