Research On Fromm’s Freedom Of Alienation Thought

Freedom is the eternal theme of human pursuit. In the long river of history, people in the pursuit of freedom in the process of exhausted mind, pay countless lives, smashed infinite chains, in order to obtain more freedo m. Just as human freedom and the seemingly absolute triumph of the human spirit, but to set their own on new iron chains. The capitalist way of life makes people on the path to freedom on the road access to the supreme glory, people than at any time in the past to more freedom, but it is this freedom also let people increasingly think their own small and vulnerable, lonely and helpless, the spirit of the people also faces unprecedented lonely and insecure. In order to avoid the drawbacks of this freedom, in order to seek spiritual rely on, people began to put new spearhead its, pointing to freedom, escape from freedom, even give up freedom, this is the alienation of freedom. Fromm’s alienation of freedom of thought is to the inheritance and development of Marx’s alienation theory, it profoundly reveals the predicament of contemporary capitalist society, and to elucidate the nature of freedom and its internal contradictions, for us to rethink freedom and human liberation has positive significance.Firstly, this paper analyzes the origin of Fromm’s thought of alienation. The origin of his thought mainly by Marxist philosophy, Freud’s psychological analysis and existentialism philosophy; social and historical origins including economic crisis of capitalism world, the prevalence of World War and fascism and after the Second World War capitalist society overall alienation. Secondly, this paper discusses the main content of Fromm "s thoughts of alienation, including the change of freedom with the development of socia l history, the form of freedom and alienation, and the consequences of freedom" s alienation. At last, the paper focuses on the significance of Fromm’s theory of freedom and alienation. Pointed out that the alienation of freedom of thought expand the new perspective of Marxist theory of social criticism, analyzes the psychological mechanism of fascism, and take this as the foundation and to discuss the dialectic relation between freedom and solitude, and points out that the outstanding contribution made by the of Marxist freedom view and the theory of alienation.The innovation of this paper lies in the Fromm about avoiding the psychological mechanism of free in philosophy attributed to the alienation of freedom; resulting from the analysis of the alienat ion of freedom causes, manifestations and results, it is concluded that to overcome the alienation of freedom, human spirit and improve the road leading to the; psychic mechanism critique theory and traditional Marxist theory of social criticism to compari son, draw the psychic mechanism critique is a great expansion of Western Marxist theory of social criticism.