The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles.
The combined left-wing opposition in France has defeated President Jacque Chirac's ruling Conservative Coalition in the first round of the country's parliamentary elections.
Some historians, such as Charles and Mary Beard and Howard Zinn, stress its conservative character; others, like Gordon Wood, have insisted on its radicalism.
This article focuses on the analysis and comment on the contemporary Chinese cultural evolutionism and relativism, cultural radicalism and conservatism, and cultural globalism and nationalism.
The conservative opposition, in a mood of deep introversion after being turfed out last October, can hardly challenge the handling of a crisis it helped to create.