Erich Fromm - Psychology of the Nazi movement (Part 3): The desire of power in Hitler's sadism.
Entry topics: Erich Fromm, Nazism
The Nazi system constitutes an extreme form of the "authoritarian" and Hitler's autobiography is a good example of this attitude. Sadism is the momentum, with strong connotations destructive, directed the exercise of unlimited power over another person. Hitler showed a clear desire sadistic power, as constantly shown in "Mein Kapfe. He speaks of the satisfaction of the masses to feel dominated: "What they want is the victory of the strongest and the annihilation or the unconditional surrender of the weakest.".
Describes how to break the will of the public through the work of the superior force of the speaker, which is the essential role of propaganda: "At night, however, succumb more easily to the dominating force of a superior," and how should impel people to adopt the new ideology: "The mass meeting is necessary, at least for the individual, who join a new movement is lonely and can be easy prey to the fear of being isolated , first acquires the vision of a larger community [...] and I sat surrounded by thousands of people with the same convictions ... he should succumb to the magic influence of what we call mass suggestion. "
Although they were the leaders who enjoyed power, the Nazi system to the masses also provided its share of sadistic satisfaction, so that by following the Roman pattern, if they had too much "bread" at least would be guaranteed the "circus" that would ensure satisfaction. The racial and political minorities, who were described as weak and decadent, were the main focus of it. Hitler says sarcastically: "In truth, the idea is perhaps pacifist humanitarian quite good provided the most valuable man has previously conquered and held the world to the point of being transformed into the sole owner of the balloon.".
Hitler usually want to rationalize their lust for power. Their main justifications are that domination over other peoples heads at the same well and is made in favor of world culture and that their attempts at domination are only acts of defense against foreign attempts to dominate him and the people German. He only wants peace and freedom, though of course under his rule and its own concepts of "peace" and "freedom." As he himself says "peace and not supported in the olive branches of weeping women pacifists, but based on the victorious sword of Lords, which puts the world in the service of a higher culture.". His justification of the domain as a defense against outside attacks him and introduces him to the German people as "innocent" and the enemies are others, sadistic brutes then, paradoxically, accuses the Jews, Communists and the French says the same things that are the legitimate objects of their actions. Hitler must have noticed this contradiction and so try to fix it stating that Jews lack the instinct for self-preservation of the ideals that may be in the drive to mastery of the Aryans.
In a second rationalize their desire to have it based on the laws of nature and arises, as is common in the sadistic character in its desire to merge with an alien power. Darwinism has its own interpretation of Hitler and serves to explain and justify his sadism. An anecdote from the time he lived in Munich, when the time was a complete stranger, illustrates this. He had "made a habit of throwing bits of bread to mice that were in a small room, and watch these graceful animals hopped and fought over the few foods.". In this game represented small-scale interpretation of the struggle for life in Darwin. In addition to the treacherous interpretation is striking that Hitler was positioning this game as the supreme God, for it was he who initiated and controlled.
Describes how to break the will of the public through the work of the superior force of the speaker, which is the essential role of propaganda: "At night, however, succumb more easily to the dominating force of a superior," and how should impel people to adopt the new ideology: "The mass meeting is necessary, at least for the individual, who join a new movement is lonely and can be easy prey to the fear of being isolated , first acquires the vision of a larger community [...] and I sat surrounded by thousands of people with the same convictions ... he should succumb to the magic influence of what we call mass suggestion. "
Although they were the leaders who enjoyed power, the Nazi system to the masses also provided its share of sadistic satisfaction, so that by following the Roman pattern, if they had too much "bread" at least would be guaranteed the "circus" that would ensure satisfaction. The racial and political minorities, who were described as weak and decadent, were the main focus of it. Hitler says sarcastically: "In truth, the idea is perhaps pacifist humanitarian quite good provided the most valuable man has previously conquered and held the world to the point of being transformed into the sole owner of the balloon.".
Hitler usually want to rationalize their lust for power. Their main justifications are that domination over other peoples heads at the same well and is made in favor of world culture and that their attempts at domination are only acts of defense against foreign attempts to dominate him and the people German. He only wants peace and freedom, though of course under his rule and its own concepts of "peace" and "freedom." As he himself says "peace and not supported in the olive branches of weeping women pacifists, but based on the victorious sword of Lords, which puts the world in the service of a higher culture.". His justification of the domain as a defense against outside attacks him and introduces him to the German people as "innocent" and the enemies are others, sadistic brutes then, paradoxically, accuses the Jews, Communists and the French says the same things that are the legitimate objects of their actions. Hitler must have noticed this contradiction and so try to fix it stating that Jews lack the instinct for self-preservation of the ideals that may be in the drive to mastery of the Aryans.
In a second rationalize their desire to have it based on the laws of nature and arises, as is common in the sadistic character in its desire to merge with an alien power. Darwinism has its own interpretation of Hitler and serves to explain and justify his sadism. An anecdote from the time he lived in Munich, when the time was a complete stranger, illustrates this. He had "made a habit of throwing bits of bread to mice that were in a small room, and watch these graceful animals hopped and fought over the few foods.". In this game represented small-scale interpretation of the struggle for life in Darwin. In addition to the treacherous interpretation is striking that Hitler was positioning this game as the supreme God, for it was he who initiated and controlled.
Erich Fromm - Psycology of the nazi movement (part 2): Hitler as a unifying social resentment.
Entry topics: Erich Fromm, Nazism
In many cases the emphasis has been on the origins of Nazism in the Treaty that the victorious powers granted to Germany, the Treaty of Versailles. Most Germans felt deeply unhappy and unfairly treated by the treaty, but while the middle class reacted with bitterness, the working class showed much less resentment towards this. The "nationalist resentment, used especially for the middle class, then became the engine of rationalization that it planned to lower its national social inferiority. This projection is well evidenced in the personal development of Hitler because he was the typical representative of the lower middle class, a nobody who had no prospects and made in streamlining their own national symbols.
By then the owners were facing a parliament in the forty percent of the deputies was a socialist and communist. A parliament in which most advocated ideas contrary to the economic interests of the middle class was a threat and, therefore, asserted that parliament was not working, when what really happened is that since it worked perfectly represented the interests of different social classes.
The efficiency of Hitler was due to combining the characteristics of the petit bourgeois resentful and full of hatred, with the opportunist willing to serve the interests of big industrialists. Thousands of small-bourgeoisie, which as things were being given little chance of making money, now get as members of the Nazi bureaucracy, a large increase in power and prestige that the upper classes were forced to share with them. They got many jobs that were taken to the Jews and other political enemies. Those who failed to "pan" if they obtained at least the circus. The emotional satisfaction derived sadistic spectacles and an ideology that gave the feeling of superiority over the rest of humanity was satisfied enough to keep the lives of those who were culturally and economically impoverished.
After the arrival of Hitler to power was another motivation for maintaining loyalty to the Nazi regime and the government is identified with Hitler's Germany for opposing Nazism meant that at that time to oppose the same homeland. We already know that the idea of feeling abandoned by the group is one of the strongest when we talk about fears of an individual in society. So, then, as this was a closure in order to minimize the divergent paths of thinking.
By then the owners were facing a parliament in the forty percent of the deputies was a socialist and communist. A parliament in which most advocated ideas contrary to the economic interests of the middle class was a threat and, therefore, asserted that parliament was not working, when what really happened is that since it worked perfectly represented the interests of different social classes.
The efficiency of Hitler was due to combining the characteristics of the petit bourgeois resentful and full of hatred, with the opportunist willing to serve the interests of big industrialists. Thousands of small-bourgeoisie, which as things were being given little chance of making money, now get as members of the Nazi bureaucracy, a large increase in power and prestige that the upper classes were forced to share with them. They got many jobs that were taken to the Jews and other political enemies. Those who failed to "pan" if they obtained at least the circus. The emotional satisfaction derived sadistic spectacles and an ideology that gave the feeling of superiority over the rest of humanity was satisfied enough to keep the lives of those who were culturally and economically impoverished.
After the arrival of Hitler to power was another motivation for maintaining loyalty to the Nazi regime and the government is identified with Hitler's Germany for opposing Nazism meant that at that time to oppose the same homeland. We already know that the idea of feeling abandoned by the group is one of the strongest when we talk about fears of an individual in society. So, then, as this was a closure in order to minimize the divergent paths of thinking.
Erich Fromm - Psycology of the nazi movement (part 1): Social context and germ of totalitarianism.
Entry topics: Erich Fromm, Nazism
Nazism is a psychological problem shaped by socio-economic causes and, therefore, to understand that we must understand the context in which it emerged. There was a group of people, many of them from the working class, to show that without very strong and passionate without being too was left in to the situation. Moreover, among them the small middle class, she was very attracted by this new ideology and established a union with their fanatic leaders.
Psychologically the modern individual living in a state of apathy and fatigue that prevents the firm before becoming of what happens. In the Germany of that time also had other conditions that are linked to this, was that the working class had suffered successive defeats after the victories of the revolution of 1918. For the beginning of the thirties had already lost the fruits of victory and the first mass working class was under the sign of resignation to the distrust of leaders, or interest on any political activity.
Contrary to the skepticism or distaste of the working class, the lower middle class (petty traders, artisans and employees) warmly welcomed the arrival of the Nazi regime. There are features of this class that defines the course of history and now love the strong, the weak hatred, pettiness, greed (with the money and feelings), their asceticism, narrow view of life and suspicion against the foreigner. These features would be one of the pillars that rise to the subsequent roll-social.
Previously the authority of the monarchy was undisputed and revered the lower middle class got a sense of pride and a narcissist. In the post-war period this changed. The decline of the middle class became more acute and the arrival of inflation, which reached its greatest intensity in 1923, ended with the savings that this social layer had amassed over many years of work. While between 1924 and 1928 the economic situation was improving, and thus economic hopes of the new middle class, that ended the 1929 crisis that squandered many of the gains made in previous years.
In addition to face economic issues had increased psychological problems and that came mainly from the defeat suffered in the war and the fall of the monarchy. Before the war, the middle class might be in a position superior to that of the worker but the differences were shortened or canceled, largely because the social prestige of the proletariat had been increasing and this implied that, consequently, the class half diminished. Had not eliminated the gap whom despise. In addition, the middle class saw the family, another stronghold, collapsed. Economic and social conditions of the war had undermined parental authority and thus the morality of this social class. In this way the new generation did not have a clear horizon and doing whatever they wanted for their own future regardless of what their parents had done. The economic crisis depriving parents of the support material that could have given their children in other circumstances and the new generation should be sought on their own to succeed. Coupled with the excess population to get a job was the large group of former soldiers who had not successfully adapted to their new situation after years of civil accustomed to exercising power. Now you did not know simple to remain as employees.
Psychologically the modern individual living in a state of apathy and fatigue that prevents the firm before becoming of what happens. In the Germany of that time also had other conditions that are linked to this, was that the working class had suffered successive defeats after the victories of the revolution of 1918. For the beginning of the thirties had already lost the fruits of victory and the first mass working class was under the sign of resignation to the distrust of leaders, or interest on any political activity.
Contrary to the skepticism or distaste of the working class, the lower middle class (petty traders, artisans and employees) warmly welcomed the arrival of the Nazi regime. There are features of this class that defines the course of history and now love the strong, the weak hatred, pettiness, greed (with the money and feelings), their asceticism, narrow view of life and suspicion against the foreigner. These features would be one of the pillars that rise to the subsequent roll-social.
Previously the authority of the monarchy was undisputed and revered the lower middle class got a sense of pride and a narcissist. In the post-war period this changed. The decline of the middle class became more acute and the arrival of inflation, which reached its greatest intensity in 1923, ended with the savings that this social layer had amassed over many years of work. While between 1924 and 1928 the economic situation was improving, and thus economic hopes of the new middle class, that ended the 1929 crisis that squandered many of the gains made in previous years.
In addition to face economic issues had increased psychological problems and that came mainly from the defeat suffered in the war and the fall of the monarchy. Before the war, the middle class might be in a position superior to that of the worker but the differences were shortened or canceled, largely because the social prestige of the proletariat had been increasing and this implied that, consequently, the class half diminished. Had not eliminated the gap whom despise. In addition, the middle class saw the family, another stronghold, collapsed. Economic and social conditions of the war had undermined parental authority and thus the morality of this social class. In this way the new generation did not have a clear horizon and doing whatever they wanted for their own future regardless of what their parents had done. The economic crisis depriving parents of the support material that could have given their children in other circumstances and the new generation should be sought on their own to succeed. Coupled with the excess population to get a job was the large group of former soldiers who had not successfully adapted to their new situation after years of civil accustomed to exercising power. Now you did not know simple to remain as employees.



