Review #4 of 2023: The Sane Society by Erich Fromm

Longer and less well known than the “Art of Loving”, The Sane Society is still characteristically Erich Fromm, with his unique synthesis of Freud and Marx. The focus of the book is on Western society’s non-conduciveness to human flourishing, and potential alternate structures that could work better.

“It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain…