Question: Critically assess the perceived failures of the ‘End Of History’ thesis.
Answer: The ‘End of History’ is a controversial term that refers to an advent of a particular political and economic system as a signal of the end point of humanity’s sociocultural evolution and the final form of human government. A theory put forward by Francis Fukuyama, 1989, that with the triumph of capitalism over communism, ideological differences are for the most part, over; that is conceived as a Hegelian progression based on the struggle between various ideologies, then liberal, capitalist democracy is the final stage of this process, hence history, conceived, is over. Fukuyama’s central thesis is that there is only one type of Government left after Fascism and Communism has been defeated which is liberal democracy....(short extract)
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- Subject: History
- Course: World History
- Level: Degree
- Year: 1st
- Mark: 71%
- Words: 1051
- Date submitted: December 11, 2010
- Date written: January, 2010
- References: No
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 3553
