I highly recommend Eric Hoffer's The True Believer if you're interested this topic at all. It's a short book full of major ideas.
Hoffer's treatment of the phenomenon is just as fresh and relevant today as it was when he wrote the book in the 1950s.
I got downvoted for suggesting that Maoism was a religion, but it quite clearly had more commonalities than differences with the more extremist religious cults (as did Stalinism, Nazism, etc.)
Hoffer's treatment of the phenomenon is just as fresh and relevant today as it was when he wrote the book in the 1950s.
I got downvoted for suggesting that Maoism was a religion, but it quite clearly had more commonalities than differences with the more extremist religious cults (as did Stalinism, Nazism, etc.)