Thanks everyone for all the help.
cb - I take your point. I ventured somewhere with the Lenin stuff that I did
not want to. I obviously have misunderstood the little I've read...more reading
there remains.
Ralph - thanks for your summary it helped a lot. Am looking forward to those
I do not see Fromm's psychoanalysis as idealist at all, no matter what
Marcuse says. However, Fromm's specific assessments of people and
ideas, e.g. Pope John XXIII or D.T. Suzuki, smack of a lack of
groundedness.
Marcuse, Horkheimer, and Adorno spent the 1930s turning idealism on its
head,
