Select a statement which complies with the description of Mob and Crowd by E.P Thompson.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
Scholars influenced by the ideas of Karl Marx offered a different view of
violent collective action. Historians like E. P. Thompson showed that the ‘crowd’
and the ‘mob’ were not made up of anarchic hooligans out to destroy society.
Instead, they too had a ‘moral economy’. In other words they have their own
shared understanding of right and wrong that informed their actions.