The Pathological Psychology of Western Capitalism
"The sicknesses that pervade contemporary Western society cry out for the radically virtuous alternative of normative humanism offered by Erich Fromm. Examination of the concrete conditions of life under capitalist institutions reveals a complex of psychological pathologies, the sum of which engenders an absolutely alienated existence. Community becomes a hollow term denoting a mere aggregation of self-interested individuals, free of mutual responsibility and obligation."