[Los Angeles] Erich Fromm at 125: From Analyzing Fascism to Socialist Humanism

Sunday, November 2, 2025, 5-6:30 PM, Los Angeles Time

Note: Daylight savings time ends on Nov. 2 in USA, with clocks going back 1 hour

[In first few minutes we’ll hear brief reports/analysis of current issues like the struggle against ICE, new developments in Trumpist fascism, the Palestine genocide, Ukraine war, etc.]

Speakers:

Kieran Durkin, York University (UK) and author of The Radical Humanism of Erich Fromm

Jackson Aquino, LA-based activist in anti-ICE and Palestine protests and writer on these and on critical and urban theory

Art Share

Classroom 1

801 East Fourth Place (Arts District)

Los Ángeles 90013

(Little Tokyo Metro stop)

Remotely on zoom

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87824328357?pwd=nudcUHw8ao9R6GG6A9KifPPljwjH7B.1

Erich Fromm, born in 1900, was one of the twentieth century’s foremost public intellectuals of the left. In 1961, he published a widely circulated edition of Marx’s 1844 Manuscripts, helping to place those humanist writings at the center of Marx’s thought. Soon after, his Socialist Humanism pushed the argument further. An early member of the “Frankfurt School” before going his own way, Fromm carried out a pioneering Freudian-Marxist analysis of the authoritarian character based upon social research in pre-Hitler Germany. His Escape from Freedom (1941) continues to influence our analysis of the petty bourgeoisie (lower middle class) as major part of the social base of fascist movements. In these and other ways, Fromm continues to speak to us today.

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[Los Angeles] Erich Fromm at 125: From Analyzing Fascism to Socialist Humanism