Steven Pinker Quotes


I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.


Citations

Pinker, Steven. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Viking, 2011.

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Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker
  • Born: September 18, 1954
  • Nationality: Canadian, American
  • Profession: Scientist

Steven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.