PrescriptivePolitical & legal
Reform or refound?
On the axis: Tradition and transformation · social change
Even when change is called for, should we reform step by step, at the risk of a slowness that lets injustice endure, or refound all at once, at the risk of undoing balances we never understood?
Philosophers' positions
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Justification
Marx calls not for gradual reform but for a revolutionary overturning of the social order: the proletariat must overthrow the bourgeois state and abolish existing relations of production: a radical , hostile to any conservation of the established order.
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Manifesto of the Communist Party, 1848
Manifesto of the Communist Party, conclusion · Theses on Feuerbach, XI (changing the world)
Anchors: Burke · Tocqueville · Marx