The debate is not simply “reform or revolution,” but rather: “ social liberalism, reformism, or revolution .” Available also in French La gauche, une ambiguĆÆtĆ© historique fondamentale
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51