To Have or to Be?

Difficult to read. Since the book was written in 1976 its like visiting my childhood. Fromm is looking at the political situation in those days, there was cold war and the Soviet Union was still existing.
What I take from the book is that mankind should focus more on being and less on having. Well, history of capitalism since 1976 turns out to prove the opposite, we are a society of "having" and just a few people are mindful enough to focus on being.