The book represents a fundamental sociological and political science work that deals with the relationship between social structures and political systems, with special emphasis on Marxist theory, self-management, and the socialist society of the former
In the book Healthy Society, Fromm tried to show that life in a democracy of the XX. century represents another type of escape from freedom. The analysis of this very escape, in which alienation is the central concept, forms a large part of this book.