时下在中国,法国历史学家托克维尔《旧制度与大革命》一书再度成为阅读热点。有人总结出“托克维尔定律”:一个政权最危险的时刻通常是在其开始改革之际。许多人将之当成了一条普遍规律,试图将这一见解套用在解释以往发生的历次革命和社会动乱上,并由此引发对一般意义 Nowadays in China, the book “Old Institutions and the Great Revolution” by French historian Tocqueville has once again become a hot spot for reading. Someone summed up “Tocqueville’s Law”: the most dangerous moment of a regime is usually at the beginning of its reform. Many have come to regard this as a universal law that seeks to apply this view to explain all the previous revolutions and social unrests that have taken place in the past,