The Communist Struggle to Transform the Earth

Stephen Pinker is like the model of the kind of bourgeois thinking that Weiner is criticizing here. And he says that this view is one that really is quite radically different from prior religious views of the world, sort of like prior eschatologies or other eschatologies. He also talks a little bit about the communist struggle to transform the earth into a more perfect world and how it's not an automatic process afforded by liberty and ingenuity.