tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10970428.post574360739219528520..comments2024-03-27T08:00:05.698+00:00Comments on ResoluteReader: Barrington Moore Jnr - Social Origins of Dictatorship and DemocracyResolute Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05543167556221747469noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10970428.post-34400395844355524952014-12-29T11:40:54.172+00:002014-12-29T11:40:54.172+00:00I used to teach Moore when worked in a political s...I used to teach Moore when worked in a political science department. I think his work holds up well overall. The most important thing he did was reinsert the largest class of humans, the peasantry, back into the historical narrative. The Marxists had done a very thorough job by the late 1960s of eliminating the peasants as a group of people with any agency in the various academic historical J. Otto Pohlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07457089758142264049noreply@blogger.com