*** First thing Eric Hoffer discussed in his book, “The True Believer” was how people join mass movements. In the book Hoffer also quotes a lot of historical events. Some of the examples he uses were, the fanatical Christian, the fanatical Mohammad, the fanatical nationalist, the fanatical Communist, and the fanatical Nazi. He argues in his book that, the goals of every mass movement are substitutable because all mass movements attract the same followers, use similar tactics, and share certain essential characteristics to get their members. Whether it is, social movements, religious movements, political movements, personality’s movements, and so on. His book attempts to explain and analyze the motives of mass movements, how and why mass movements start, how they advance and the way they will end, and the similarities between all of them. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, is a sociology book written by Eric Hoffer in 1951.
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