Volume 35, Number 16 · October 27, 1988
Reform or Revolution?
By Timothy Garton Ash
The word 'reform' has been devalued by overuse, both in the writing of Western journalists and scholars and in the rhetoric of Communist leaders. In Lenin's day, 'reformism' was the ultimate transgression for Communists: now it is their saving grace. In Western usage, the term has been pressed into service to describe everything from a mere adjustment of economic policy to a fundamental transformation of the system, political as well as economic.
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