Have we reached the end? Is liberal democratic capitalism truly the final stage of history?
Recommend some books that argue otherwise
Was he right?
History ain't over until the eschaton.
Then the future begins
Hyperbolic nonsense
>a system that has been in place for a short period of time in human history is the endpoint because i'm too much of a brainlet to imagine an alternative
Buddy, he doesn’t even think he’s right anymore.
Leftists have been making fun of ‘The End of History’ thesis in the introduction to books since 9/11 and especially since the 2008 crash. The double strike against the confidence in the political then economic security of American led world basically ripped up that entire idea.
It was after the election of Trump that Fukuyama basically said he was wrong.
Nonetheless, isn't the left and the right today more or less fukuyamaist? Is there a real vision beyond global capitalism, beyond even mild social democratic reform, worker co-operatives etc...? Even on the right, do they have a real economic/political vision beyond return to old traditions, paternal authority etc...Even on the extreme right, there seems to be no real plan beyond building a capitalist liberal ethnostate.
Functionally, we may make fun of Fukuyama, but I have yet to have seen any alternative proposed...
>but I have yet to have seen any alternative proposed...
Civilizational collapse, mass death and the rise of survivalist-primitivism
>since 9/11 and especially since the 2008 crash
But nonetheless, liberal democratic capitalism was not crushed in 2008 or by 9/11. The more capitalism is in a crisis, the better it functions. I have yet to see anything that truly goes beyond it. Even radical writers like Zizek don't truly propose a concrete solution...
Listen to later talks by Fukuyama where he explains to you why he no longer believes this.
Or better, stop listening to an idiot who spouts half informed bullshit altogether