This is a book about why people so often put up with being the victims
of their societies and why at other times they become very angry and try
with passion and forcefulness to do something about their situation. I
his most ambition book to date, Barrington Moore, Jr explores a large
part of the world's experience with injustice and its understanding of
it. In search of general elements behind the acceptance of injustice he
discusses the Untouchables of India, Nazi concentration camps, and the
Milgram experiments on obedience to authority.