The Psychology of Revolution

"Man, as part of a multitude, is a very different being from the same man as an isolated individual. His conscious individuality vanishes in the unconscious personality of the crowd," observed author Gustave Le Bon. In his 1896 classic of social psychology, The Crowd, Le Bon conducted a landmark investigation of mob mentality. His subsequent work, The Psychology of Revolution, takes a closer look at his observations on the subject and his analogy of crowd behavior as an infectious disease -...