A work that is especially worth reading today by everyone, and particularly the young, as in Europe and around the world, mobocracies [...] are emerging that are ready to relinquish all the achievements of Western civilization. [...] The extremist positions across the political spectrum fueled by hatred for the other reveal that the reasons for people's fascination with the mob are always dangerously present.

(from the preface by Fotini Tsalikoglou)

Written in 1895, "The Psychology of Crowds" is still considered one of the books that changed the world at the beginning of the 20th century. A monumental work, it remains pioneering in the field of Social Psychology, as the first to approach the phenomenon of crowds from a new perspective and highlight their potentially destructive role in modern history.