Books by Barrington Moore
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
by Barrington Moore
Why do you get Stalinism and Maoism? Because you are taking peasant agricultural societies, with very low levels of capital, and you are trying to integrate them into the world economy, or at least modernise them in record time so they can survive against the capitalist economies. How do you do that? You do it with an enormous amount of brutality.
Interviews where books by Barrington Moore were recommended
The best books on How the World’s Political Economy Works, recommended by Mark Blyth
If you were the last person alive and had to leave a testament to how our world worked, which five books would you choose? Political economist Mark Blyth makes his ‘desert island’ choices.
