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Published in 1895, it anticipated the instrumental use of crowds and the era of great dictatorships with extraordinary foresight. It influenced Freud, Theodore Roosevelt, Mussolini and De Gaulle. It paved the way for the emergence of a new discipline, social psychology, becoming a fundamental text in the sociology of communication. Crowds are a destructive force, lacking an overall vision, undisciplined. This makes them easily orientable and impressionable. The prestige and charisma of the leader, thanks to the repetitive use of a few simple slogans, not argued, is able to access their primitive collective unconscious and therefore to maneuver them. In the collective soul, the intellectual attitudes of men, and consequently their individuality, are annulled.
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GenreLiterary Classics, Biography and Memoir
Length5 hrs 3 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface
10Chapter II. The Immediate Factors of the Opinions of Crowds
2Introduction. The Era of Crowds
11Chapter
3Book I. The Mind of Crowds
12Chapter IV. Limitations of the Variability of the Beliefs and Opinions of Crowds
4Chapter I. General Characteristics of Crowds. — Psychological Law of Their Mental Unity
13Book III. The Classification and Description of the Different Kinds of Crowds
5Chapter II. The Sentiments and Morality of Crowds
14Chapter I. The Classification of Crowds
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6Chapter III. The Ideas, Reasoning Power, and Imagination of Crowds
15Chapter II. Crowds Termed Criminal Crowds
7Chapter IV. A Religious Shape Assumed by All the Convictions of Crowds
16Chapter III. Criminal Juries
8Book II. The Opinions and Beliefs of Crowds
17Chapter IV. Electoral Crowds
9Chapter I. Remote Factors of the Opinions and Beliefs of Crowds
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