Saturday, February 27, 2016

" My Vienna Days ", explains Hitler's political personality

Review of Erich Fromm's " Anatomy of Human Destructiveness "
Hitler's speeches for bedside reading ? Well, he could be quite soporific, Adolph Hitler. In " Mein Kampf " one chapter at least explains the roots of Hitler's political personality . Read " My Vienna Days ". Psychiatrist Erich Fromm analyzed Hitler as a " destructive personality ", a petty bourgeois who despised working class life, seeing himself as the artist type-but living in hateful squalor and misery. Personal misery does often find political expression. Other ruined middle class Germans turned to some variety of socialism. It can happen here !
Both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders talk about the death of the American Dream - the middle class " good life ".
     [      Review of " Anatomy of Human  Destructiveness "
    " In sane life-loving societies it would be recognized as the pathology that it is; malignant character-types like Stalin, Hitler and Himmler -- Fromm's models -- would be harmless because they wouldn't have a chance to come to power. "]


Hitler was shaped by his " Vienna Days ".

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