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5 unusual facts about Ochlocracy


Dietrich von Saucken

A cavalry officer who regularly wore both a sword and a monocle, Saucken personified the archetypal aristocratic Prussian conservative who despised the braune Bande ("brown mob") of Nazis.

Ivor the Invisible

On the way home, Ivor incites the wrath of an angry mob after tampering with the Belisha beacons and pelican crossings.

Jean-Louis Laya

This energetic protest against mob rule, with its scarcely veiled characterizations of Robespierre as Nomophage and of Marat as Duricrne, was an act of the highest courage, for the play was produced at the Théâtre Français (temporarily Théâtre de la Nation) only nineteen days before the execution of Louis XVI.

Welcome Chapman

Armed mobs drove the Chapmans from their homes in Missouri and Illinois.

William B. Magruder

He did, however, deal with the crisis of the June 1857 Election Riots, in which the Know-Nothings recruited a street gang from Baltimore, the Plug-Uglies, to come to Washington on its local Election Day and intimidate the voters at the polls; the Plug-Uglies turned away anti-Know-Nothing voters with rocks, guns, and knives, until some citizens brought weapons of their own and the violence grew into mob rule.


Arnold Fitz Thedmar

Arnold was by no means blind to the faults of Henry's government, but preferred an autocracy to the mob rule which Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester countenanced in London.

Conservative Revolutionary movement

The Conservative Revolutionaries based their ideas on organic rather than materialistic thinking, on quality instead of quantity, and on Volksgemeinschaft ("folk-community") rather than class conflict and "mob rule".


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