Barrington Moore: Injustice. The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt

INJUSTICE is a politically engaged work, a work about political possibilities and how to assess them; and its deepest message is that Marxism is irretrievably flawed as an intellectual device for such assessment. It is flawed, from its origins in the violent – and appropriate – emotional rejection of injustice, by an irretrievable commitment to over-estimating the casual opportunities for transcending such injustice. alhat gives Moore's present book its remarkable moral forte is the extent to which it represents the triumph of intellectual experience over intellectual hope...But his book carries with great clarity and resonance the voice of a great teacher, still in quest of the pupils he deserves.' (John Dunn, The Times Higher Education Supplement)