" The passage from the ancestral line of slavery via feudalism and capitalism to socialism can only lie through revolution: it cannot lie through reform. For in reform, fundamental principles are held constant, and the details of their expression are modified. In the words of Marx, it leaves the pillars of the building intact. Indeed sometimes, reform itself may be initiated by the necessities of preserving identical fundamental principles.
Reform is a tactic of self-preservation. "

― Kwame Nkrumah , Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonization and Development with Particular Reference to the African Development