The Crowd, The Multitude

The association of diminished ego boundaries with categories of race, gender, and class hierarchies is a thinly disguised expression of fear about the political threat to established power posed by unrestrained extension of democracy to common people via universal suffrage, populism, class solidarity, and racial equality.

Rogers, Kenneth. "Black friday: Crowdsourcing communities of risk." Women's Studies Quarterly 40, no. 1/2 (2012): 171-186.