E131 | Fires of Progress | Steven Pinker, Tariq Ali, Elif Sarican by Philosophy For Our Times published on 2019-01-22T10:15:12Z Most think that social progress should be driven by ideas and persuasion not force. Yet from the French and Russian Revolutions to the Suffragettes, violent action has been instrumental to generating change. Is violence ever justified as a political strategy? Or should we always venerate Gandhi over Guevara? Enlightenment Now author Steven Pinker, filmmaker and author of The Clash of Fundamentalisms Tariq Ali and Kurdish Women's Movement activist Elif Sarican grapple with the forces of history. In association with the New College of the Humanities: www.nchlondon.ac.uk Genre Learning Comment by Kevin BDS is always backed up by the implied threat of violence. It is like locking someone in a box and starving them to death. 2019-01-25T21:30:03Z Comment by Das Natural starts at 2:00 2019-01-25T15:26:33Z
