#1167 Allen Buchanan - Ideology and Revolution: Hierarchy, Resistance, Revolution, and Morality

Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Dissenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by a return guest, Dr. Alan Buchanan. In our first interview, we talked about his book, Our Moral Fate, and today we're talking about his latest one, Ideology and Revolution, how the struggle against domination drives the evolution of morality. and institutions.

So Dr. Buchanan, welcome back to the show. It's always a huge pleasure to talk with you. Thank you for having me. So tell us first, what is, before we get into specifics here, what is the main argument of your book?

Okay, the idea is that this is a contribution to understanding social change and that one driver of social change is a kind of co-evolutionary interaction between hierarchs, people who occupy positions of power and authority over others, and people who resist their exercising that control. So there's a continuing struggle between hierarchs and resistors to hierarchy. And the idea is that in this struggle Each party has to form coalitions to be effective.

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