The collapse of communism and a recognition of its economic and humanitarian catastrophes took the romance out of revolu — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The collapse of communism and a recognition of its economic and humanitarian catastrophes took the romance out of revolu — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The collapse of communism and a recognition of its economic and humanitarian catastrophes took the romance out of revolu — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The collapse of communism and a recognition of its economic and humanitarian catastrophes took the romance out of revolu — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The collapse of communism and a recognition of its economic and humanitarian catastrophes took the romance out of revolu — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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The collapse of communism and a recognition of its economic and humanitarian catastrophes took the romance out of revolutionary violence and cast doubt on the wisdom of redistributing wealth at the point of a gun.

— Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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