For a period , Fromm was also active in U.S. politics . He joined the Socialist Party of America in the mid-1950s , and did his best to help them provide an alternative viewpoint to McCarthyism trends in some US political thought . This alternative viewpoint was best expressed in his 1961 paper '' May Man Prevail ? An Inquiry into the Facts and Fictions of Foreign Policy '' . However , as a co-founder of SANE , Fromm 's strongest political activism was in the international peace movement , fighting against the nuclear arms race and U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War . After supporting Senator Eugene McCarthy 's losing bid for the Democratic presidential nomination , Fromm more or less retreated from the American political scene , although he did write a paper in 1974 entitled '' Remarks on the Policy of Détente '' for a hearing held by the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations . Fromm was awarded Nelly Sachs Prize in 1979
Democratic presidential nomination
1968 Democratic National Convention
Erich Fromm