Legacy
People influenced by The Pursuit of the Millennium include French Marxist Guy Debord, who considered the chiliastic cults discussed by Cohn something of a model for the Situationist International, and British author Richard Webster. Webster wrote that he was impressed by the book, and that it lead him to read Cohn's other works, including Warrant for Genocide and Europe's Inner Demons. Reading these books helped convince Webster that "the principle reason why we should study the witch-hunts of the past is to enable us the better to recognise and oppose the witch-hunts of the present and the future", and led to his interest in the problem of false abuse allegations.
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