POL SCI 6C Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Proletariat, French Revolution, The True Believer
2 May 2017
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Lecture 17: writes his book in early 1950s, height of the conflict with the soviet union. Just came out of wwii: how is it that ordinary people choose this kind of dictatorial regime? (mussolini, Hitler) a big part of it was allegiance by the masses. What is it that these regimes had: hoffer tries to answer this question, 1990, the berlin wall falls, soviet union crumbles, eastern europe develops their independence. We get to choose what sorts of relationships we will have with our peers. If we want to have relations with whoever we want, its up to us. Previously, these relations were not acceptable: 75 (cid:455)ears ago, (cid:455)ou(cid:374)g (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374) did(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e the sa(cid:373)e (cid:272)hoi(cid:272)es as the(cid:455) ha(cid:448)e toda(cid:455). We have the choice to be successful wealthy la(cid:449)(cid:455)er, a(cid:374)d if (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e that, it is our fault. We cannot blame someone else for that loss: choices mean responsibility, which for a lot of people is very hard.
