True Believer Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Name: True Believer Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
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ISBN: 9780060916121

ISBN-10: 0060916125

ISBN-13: 9780060916121

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Eric Hoffer

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Book details

List price: $7.95
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/6/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.11" wide x 8.11" long x 1.11" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Preface


The Appeal of Mass Movements


The Desire for Change


The Desire for Substitutes


The Interchangeability of Mass Movements


The Potential Converts


The Role of the Undesirables in Human Affairs


The Poor


The New Poor


The Abjectly Poor


The Free Poor


The Creative Poor


The Unified Poor


Misfits


The Inordinately Selfish


The Ambitious Facing Unlimited Opportunities


Minorities


The Bored


The Sinners


United Action and Self-sacrifice


Preface


Factors Promoting Self-sacrifice


Identification with a Collective Whole


Make-believe


Deprecation of the Present


"Things Which Are Not"


Doctrine


Fanaticism


Mass Movements and Armies


Unifying Agents


Hatred


Imitation


Persuasion and Coercion


Leadership


Action


Suspicion


The Effects of Unification


Beginning and End


Men of Words


The Fanatics


The Practical Men of Action


Good and Bad Mass Movements


The Unattractiveness and Sterility of the Active Phase


Some Factors Which Determine the Length of the Active Phase


Useful Mass Movements


Notes