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.
Pinker, Steven. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Viking, 2011.
Hoover’s testimony not withstanding, communism in America never did spread like an epidemic.
Unlike most of his televangelist successors, Sheen was very ecumenical. He was clearly Catholic but had a very significant Protestant and Jewish Audience.
Ataturk was not receptive toward Communism as some other world leaders were at the time. He saw its weakness far earlier than many others.
Commenting on political parties in Cuba:
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.