This article presents evidence that Fromm increasingly diverged form Marx in his concept of human nature, that Fromm's construct of the "social unconscious" is the locus where mystical and psychoanalytic notions become confused with Marxian ideas, and that Fromm's reconstruction of Marx in idealist terms does serious violence to Marx's theory and is accomplished only at the price of major distortion.
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