To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.


Quoted in Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm (1941) p. 223


To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.

To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.

To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.

To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.