The general lack of interest in Erich Fromm's work today, in part, marks the success of his critics during his lifetime.¹ Two of his severest and earliest critics, Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse, were, like Fromm, former members of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. As early as 1936, in a letter to Max Horkheimer regarding an article by Fromm, Adorno accused Fromm of political and theoretical naïveté.