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Erich Fromm — Part 2
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NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOUNDATION
BUILD THE EARTH
NEW SPHERE
SEQUOIA SEMINARS FOUNDATION
"THE COMMUNITY"
Among Erich Fromm's most noted works is The Art
of Loving in which he states that the principle of love and
the principle of capitaiisem are incompatible.
Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving, New York,
N.¥.: Colophon Paperbac ition, Harper & Row,
1962, p. 131i.
In another leading work, Revolution of Hope, he
biueprints a plan for changing the world through clubs,
groups, and "the movement." In this book he advocates a
substitute for religious and patriotic formulae in schools
and instructs the "movement™ on how to become involved in
oitv, local, regional, and nations! affaira in onder te
further the movement's goals. In an international symposium
called Sccialist Humanism of which he is the editor, he
writes a chapter on "The Application of Humanist Psychoanal-
ysis to Marx's Theory."
In the work Erich Fromm, A Protestant Critique, J.
Stanley Glenn, Rh.D., claims that Fromm 16 popular today
since he capitalizes on man's loneliness and his nedd to
trelate to others." Dr. Glen claims that Fromm views Christ
as a “social revolutionary" and that he views Christian
prostestantism as the religious correlate of capitalism.
Glen further accuses Fromm of proposing a substitute religion
and of believing that “atheistic mysticism" as a religious
form of (humanistic) tradition is the only religion that can
free man from authoritarian religion of law. .
The "Nathonal Initiative Foundation" and "Build
the Earth" have formed an “education task force" to introduce
their philosophy and program into the Palo Alto Unified
School District. Palo Alto is to be a pilot project.
These two closely affiliated but legally ceparate
organizations are reported by members to be interrelated to
another organization known both as "New Sphere" and "Challenge
to Change" which meet in many small couples groups as part
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