Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. (Erich Fromm)

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

Erich Fromm

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