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Full Idea
More permanent positive social change is made incrementally rather than by revolutionary transformation.
Gist of Idea
Most good social changes are incremental, rather than revolutionary
Source
Adam Gopnik (A Thousand Small Sanities [2019], 1)
Book Ref
Gopnik,Adam: 'A Thousand Small Sanities' [riverrun 2019], p.40
A Reaction
This is the standard liberal response to revolution. Revolutionaries obviously consider such a claim to be very naïve, and a failure to grasp how deep the changes need to go.