Socialist Humanism

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PHILOSOPHY, POLITICAL SCIENCE

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SOClllllSl IIIIMANISM an international symposium

edited by Erich Fromm “...a symposium whose publication by its very nature is something of an intellectual event....At the very moment when in the name of ‘humanity’ we are at war with people identified as ‘Communists’

in Vietnam, there appears a book which unabashedly refers to the founder of Communism as a humanist. ..__._,_T|he contributors are refreshingly ready to differ with Marxism orfc» ‘correct’ him when the

occasion requires it. Many suggest that Marx must be revised in the light of things that have been written since he died. Their can didates for the sources of these adjustments reveal a lot about the diversity of the contributors themselves."

—Harvey Cox in Saturday Review “...the debate is conducted without the customary polemical overtones. The real interest thus lies in comparing the attitudes of the Eastern ‘revisionists’ with those of their Western counterparts.... lTlhe presence [of the former] is a hopeful pointer toward genuine

coexistence." —George Lichtheim in the New -York Review of Book» Among the contributors: Herbert Marcuse, Eugene Kamenka, Irvin; Fetscher, Maximilien Rubel, Adam Schafl, Norman Thomas, Dani!-' Dolci, Léopold S. Senghor,lvan Svitak, T. B. Bottomore. cover: ossrcn av STANISLAW ZAGORSKI A DOUBLEDAY ANCHOR BOOK

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