Hypnoid mass suggestion
what does the bolded phrase mean in the following sentence?
"the essential principle is that the democratic process is transformed into one in which well-informed and responsible citizens- not an automatized mass-men, controlled by the methods of hypnoid mass suggestion- express their will."
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MARS MILET automatized mass-m a n The quote is from A Socialist Manifesto and Program by Erich Fromm, published in the Summer, 1960 edition of "The Socialist Call" Are they ( 20th century capitalist and 20th century communist nations) not both in the process of converging into a new industrial neo-feudalism, into industrial societies, led and manipulated by big, powerful bureaucracies, societies in which the individual becomes a well-fed and well-entertained automaton, who loses his individuality, his independence and his humanity? if they go on the same way, the mass-man , the alienated man, a well fed, well clothed well entertained automaton-man governed by bureaucrats who have as little a goal as the mass-man has, will replace the creative, thinking, feeling man. Humanist socialism is the voluntary, logical outcome of the operation of human nature under rational conditions.
- MARS MILET automatized mass-m a n The quote is from A Socialist Manifesto and Program by Erich Fromm, published in the Summer, 1960 edition of "The Socialist Call" Are they ( 20th century capitalist and 20th century communist nations) not both in the process of converging into a new industrial neo-feudalism, into industrial societies, led and manipulated by big, powerful bureaucracies, societies in which the individual becomes a well-fed and well-entertained automaton, who loses his individuality, his independence and his humanity?
- if they go on the same way, the mass-man , the alienated man, a well fed, well clothed well entertained automaton-man governed by bureaucrats who have as little a goal as the mass-man has, will replace the creative, thinking, feeling man.
- Humanist socialism is the voluntary, logical outcome of the operation of human nature under rational conditions.
- It is the realization of democracy, which has its roots in the humanistic tradition of mankind, under the conditions of an industrial society.
- It is a social system which operates without force, neither physical force, nor that of hypnoid suggestions by which men are forced without being aware of it.
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MARS MILETautomatized mass-man
The quote is from A Socialist Manifesto and Program by Erich Fromm, published in the Summer, 1960 edition of "The Socialist Call"
Are they (20th century capitalist and 20th century communist nations) not both in the process of converging into a new industrial neo-f
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