Volume 25, Number 9 · June 1, 1978
On Moral Outrage
By Barrington Moore
With the rise of mass production, of the mass market in capitalist societies, of government control of the economy in socialist ones, and of huge powerful bureaucracies in both, the entire setting in which moral anger can arise and find expression has changed. To these elements in the modern situation it is necessary to add that of sheer numbers. The more people there are, the less any single person's feelings can count, even if a few individuals may have greater social power because of a more complex division of labor.
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