The fact that democracy declared its total victory at the end of this Century, the century of astounding production and technology, is no coincidence. No other system has managed to render the society and the individual this creativity in their own naturalness. The democratic system obtains its power from freeing people. Democracy is simple, but develops slowly. However, without a doubt, the results it bore in our times are more impressive and rapid than those a most powerful regime can afford.
Democracies possess mostly an evolutionary language, but essentially, they rest on revolutions.
The most crucial thing to know is when to democratize a revolution. Revolutions that fail to democratize might either lead to dictatorship or deteriorate into anarchism. Revolutions that succeed in democratizing life become permanent and manage to bring about creative development. To become stuck to a revolutionary stage is to become stuck to bureaucracy as much as to counter-revolution. The institutional and administrative developments relating to democracy gained momentum starting with the mid-19th Century.