Abstract

In a prophetic essay published three years after his Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, Barrington Moore Jr. assayed the current prospects for revolution in America.1 He wrote in 1969, a time of many calls for liberation by means of revolution, and not a few for revolution by means of liberation. Moore reviewed classic ideas about the conditions for revolution disaffection among intellectuals, sharp division within the ruling classes, loss of unified control over the instruments of violence, emergence of mass popular rebellion, and so on then considered skeptically the likelihood that such conditions would converge in the United States. He insisted on change and variability in essential conditions for revolution, but also pleaded for the value of sober thought on the subject:

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