Social Origins Of Dictatorship And Democracy by Barrington Moore Jr.
Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
A comparative historical study arguing that the balance of power and alliances among landed elites, peasants, and the bourgeoisie shaped distinct paths to modern politics—liberal democracy, fascism, or communism. Examining cases such as England, France, the United States, Germany, Japan, China, and Russia, it shows how agrarian class structures, commercialization of agriculture, and coercive state capacities produced outcomes ranging from bourgeois-led democracies to conservative authoritarianism or peasant revolutions, encapsulated in the dictum “no bourgeois, no democracy.”
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- Published
- 1966
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Long
- Pages
- 550-600
- Original Language
- English
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