Books: The Rotten Middle Class

BEYOND THE CHAINS OF ILLUSION (182 pp.)—Erich Fromm—Trident Press ($3.95).

Erich Fromm is a world-famous psychoanalyst whose interests of late have had little to do with psychoanalysis. On lecture podiums and on television, in books and magazines, he has called for an overhaul of U.S. society because, he argues, it is maiming the individual and steering the world toward war and chaos. Partly on the basis of Fromm's reputation as a psychoanalyst, many people are taking him seriously as an expert on history, morals, politics and military strategy.

Just how shaky these credentials are...

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