The mob sought entry into history even at the price of ruin

Evidence

Yet it is here if anywhere that a valid criterion may be found for distinguishing the elite from the mob in the pretotalitarian atmosphere. What the mob wanted, and what Goebbels expressed with great precision, was access to history even at the price of destruction. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 789

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the mob by its demand for access to historical recognition through destruction, distinguishing it from both masses and elite.