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    Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History

    Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History is a review of Fukuyama's new book entitled "Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment."

    Fukuyama is famous for The End of History:

    Fukuyama’s argument was that, with the imminent collapse of the Soviet Union, the last ideological alternative to liberalism had been eliminated. Fascism had been killed off in the Second World War, and now Communism was imploding. In states, like China, that called themselves Communist, political and economic reforms were heading in the direction of a liberal order.

    So, if you imagined history as the process by which liberal institutions—representative government, free markets, and consumerist culture—become universal, it might be possible to say that history had reached its goal....
    His new book is summarized as:

    The demand for recognition, Fukuyama says, is the “master concept” that explains all the contemporary dissatisfactions with the global liberal order: Vladimir Putin, Osama bin Laden, Xi Jinping, Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, gay marriage, isis, Brexit, resurgent European nationalisms, anti-immigration political movements, campus identity politics, and the election of Donald Trump. It also explains the Protestant Reformation, the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, Chinese Communism, the civil-rights movement, the women’s movement, multiculturalism, and the thought of Luther, Rousseau, Kant, Nietzsche, Freud, and Simone de Beauvoir. Oh, and the whole business begins with Plato’s Republic.
    You get from the tone the reviewer dislikes Fukuyama's thesis. Likely because the reviewer is a liberal who engages in identity politics.

    Granted, both theses are broad stroked but both provide insight into history.
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    I have seen several articles lately along these lines. I never believed in the premise of The End of History.
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    Oh, no, say it ain't so LOL. This was a really dumb idea to start with, it was the assumption humans would evolve into nice humans, free markets would really be free, and global politics would sing kum ba ya as they shared and took care of their citizens and mother earth. Social evolution proceeds slowly as the doofus we now have as president demonstrates daily.

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    Quote Originally Posted by midcan5 View Post
    Oh, no, say it ain't so LOL. This was a really dumb idea to start with, it was the assumption humans would evolve into nice humans, free markets would really be free, and global politics would sing kum ba ya as they shared and took care of their citizens and mother earth. Social evolution proceeds slowly as the doofus we now have as president demonstrates daily.

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    On that point I agree, there is no such thing as progress.

    Capitalist liberal democracy simply won out over fascism and communism--last man standing. But modern (postmodern) liberalism now undermines even that.
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    Fukuyama seems to be trying to explain how the liberalism he champions could engender so much unhappiness and discontent.
    Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.


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    Quote Originally Posted by midcan5 View Post
    Oh, no, say it ain't so LOL. This was a really dumb idea to start with, it was the assumption humans would evolve into nice humans, free markets would really be free, and global politics would sing kum ba ya as they shared and took care of their citizens and mother earth. Social evolution proceeds slowly as the doofus we now have as president demonstrates daily.

    "Only someone miraculously innocent of history could believe that competition among ideas could result in the triumph of truth" John Gray
    Yes, you describe an old liberal conceit and I tend to agree but the Utopian enterprises of the left fall subject to the same criticism.
    Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.


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