Democratic civilization is the first in history to blame itself because another power is working to destroy it. - Jean-François Revel

Anti-Americanism thus defined is less a popular prejudice than a parti pris of the political, cultural and religious elites.

Since no example of Leninist socialism is other than totalitarian and bureaucratic, one wonders how the doctrinaire ideologists can dismiss so disdainfully those who point out that the promise of socialism in freedom, while surely praiseworthy, remains a promise only, not something experienced in reality. The utopia of socialism with a human face has been crushed everywhere even before it could be born. How distressing that becoming humane, which should be the least we could expect from a regime dedicated to liberating humanity, should present for socialism a problem as impossible as squaring the circle.

The United States is the only country where these revolutions are simultaneously in progress and organically linked in such a way as to constitute a single revolution.