Volume 25, Number 14 · September 28, 1978
Why Men Do Not Revolt
By James Joll
Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt
by Barrington Moore Jr.
M.E. Sharpe, Inc, 540 pp., $17.50
For at least a century and a half the specter of revolution has haunted the ruling classes of the West. Tocqueville's fears in 1848—'Don't you feel…a wind of Revolution in the air?'—Bismarck's anxieties that in the 1870s international socialism presented a real and immediate threat, the red scares in the United States after both World War I and World War II all reflect the conviction that revolution was likely and at certain moments imminent. Yet the revolution in the advanced industrial countries of Europe and North America never came: the demands for an end to the capitalist regime or the fears of its collapse have never been realized.
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