Tocqueville 's Paradox And Anti - Paradox

In the traditional theory of revolution,where is oppression there is resistance, the deeper the oppression cause the stronger resistance, the revolution is often caused by oppression. However Tocqueville proposes a contrary theory in his famous book <The Old Regime and the Revolution>: why the reform to reduce the financial burden of the people finally provoke people, why didn’t the French revolution occurred in autocratic the strictest Louis xiv, but occur in authoritarian relatively mild period of Louis xvi. Why the prosperity of economic accelerated the arrival of the revolution. Synthesizing above all is the famous antinomy of Tocqueville.Through the analysis, this paper proposed that as the objective phenomenon widely exists in history.and the antinomy of Tocqueville is not logic but empiric.The terrible essence of antinomy is that once triggered, society would be in a dilemma whether the reform can not stop the violent bloodshed. And once the certain conditions occur, is likely to trigger the antinomy. Necessary but not sufficient conditions are:the extremely required for reform, the old and new forces be well-matched in strength.and the loss of social cohesion.Further analysis showed that Tocqueville paradox is run to a certain social contradictions special stage of the product, an effective solution to the paradox is also dependent on the effective handling of social conflicts. With the development of the productive forces and relations of production change, which objectively requires corresponding changes in the social system. While any form of in-depth reform of the social system will cause some degree of social unrest.but the degree of turbulence is controllable.lf within the wrong time to start reforms, it is likely to cause paradox, so the success of the reform depends on he distinction between singular and timing and grasp the singularity is not equivalent to the timing, the timing means that the best state of change,the singularity means the explosive state of these conflicts, the singularity.the contradictions presented chaotic state.