> and that they are/were the good guys (gals) - even if revolutions were necessary for change. While my training as a professional historian was cut short, I k

> and that they are/were the good guys (gals) - even if revolutions were necessary for change. While my training as a professional historian was cut short, I know enough to say that historians are very much trained not to judge or categorize people into good or bad. That has nothing to do with the fact that most social change has been achieved through political struggle. > Again, however, that doesn't mean that the best course of action is a violent tabula rasa, even if things are currently shit. I try not to prescribe a course of action based on the past. I note that Pinker's assessment is judgmental, i.e., he considers the main trend to be positive, yet at the same time he's judgmental against activists. My point is that you can't hold both views at once.