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Erich Fromm, a psychoanalyst and sociologist who had worked with the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research before emigrating, wrote the book in the United States and published it in 1941; the British edition is titled The Fear of Freedom. He combines Freud and Marx: character is shaped by the social and economic structure. Since the end of the Middle Ages, people have gained freedom from traditional ties but become isolated and insecure, as the doctrines of human powerlessness in Luther and Calvin already reflect. Instead of developing a positive “freedom to”, in spontaneous love and productive work, many flee into authoritarianism, destructiveness or automaton conformity. Its analysis of why the lower middle class was drawn to Nazism made the book widely read.

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