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May Man Prevail? an Inquiry into the Facts and Fictions of Foreign Policy
May Man Prevail an Inquiry into the Facts and Fictions of Foreign Policy Author:Erich Fromm Here is a challenging examination of the overriding problem in the minds of thinking men and women Is World Peace still Possible? In seeking the answer, Erich Fromm brings to his task the skills of a psychoanalyst who has increasingly devoted his attention in recent years to political and social problems. Dr. Fromm begins by reminding us that mu... more »ch of what currently passes for political thinkin on both sides of the Iron Curtain is really pathological thinking. He then proceeds with an analysis of the evolution of Soviet Russia from th Revolution to the present, demonstratin that, all is a conservative "state-managerialism", niether socialist in its spirit nor revolutionary in its intentions. He insists we misread histor by seeing in Khrushchev a combination of Lenin and a super-Czar. While the Russians need to continue their alliance with China and the underdeveloped countries, they also fear a neclear-armed China just as they dread a nuclear-armed Germany.« less