Erich Fromm on Hope and Hopelessness

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Fri, 24/01/2025 - 06:14
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Fri, 24/01/2025 - 06:14
Erich Fromm’s insights in The Revolution of Hope, written almost 60 years ago, resonate today—probably surprisingly, or unfortunately not—with the same meaningfulness and a sound call for both actionable and intellectual optimism: “Hope is paradoxical. It is neither passive waiting nor is it unrealistic forcing of circumstances that cannot occur… Neither tired reformism nor pseudo-radical […]