Das Menschenbild Bei Marx by Erich Fromm

The book offers a humanistic reading of Marx, arguing that human nature is not fixed but historically shaped and that people are essentially productive, creative beings whose capacities are stifled under capitalism; alienation results when labor and social relations are commodified and private property severs individuals from their ‘‘species-being,’’ and only collective, emancipatory transformation of social and economic structures can restore human fulfillment, freedom, and solidarity — a view that emphasizes the ethical and psychological dimensions of Marx’s thought against reductionist or deterministic interpretations.