![]() ![]() It does not maintain that all movements are identical, but that they share certain essential characteristics which give them a family likeness. ![]() This book deals with some peculiarities common to all mass movements, be they religious movements, social revolutions or nationalist movements. In the opening lines of his Preface, Hoffer lays out his thesis: Quite a bit, argues Eric Hoffer in his engaging treatise The True Believer - among the three mass movements mentioned above as well as many others. What commonality, after all, between conditions in the ancient Roman Empire, 18th century France and post-WWI Germany? ![]() When considering the histories of mass movements such as the spread of Christianity, the French Revolution or the rise of Nazism, the proximate causes for these events can seem quite distinct. ![]() The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (1951) ![]()
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