This book aims to be a cultural contribution to an open and free debate, which is necessary after a whole decade filled with crime and war; she wants to be a small step on the way to a democratic Europe.
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.