Economic reform (n.) in the former Soviet bloc meant wealth in the shop windows of Warsaw and, behind them, poverty, early death and a new caste of the super-rich skimming the aid.
Electoral reform (n.) like proportional representation is worthless taken seriously in itself, and useful only as one tool in a wider organizing struggle — which is the only way you'd ever win it anyway.
Health reform (n.) is argued over by people whose own care is already paid for.
Health reform (n.) is going to destroy the country, because in the next year or so America will have to dramatically cut the military because we can't pay for it.
Land reform (n.) that hands feudal estates to peasants as free property only perpetuates a rural proletariat and creates a peasant class doomed to the same cycle of impoverishment and debt as the French peasant.
Land reform (n.) under the revolutionaries spread land wider and with less killing; the main violence came from the government trying to put the landlords back.