Francis Fukuyama and the End of History and the Last Man

Francis Fukuyama, a public intellectual working at a conservative stink tank, wrote a book called The End of History and the Last Man in 1992.

He was a conservative and his original political theory was bad, unfalsifiable, explained nothing, and was wholly false because this is what all rightwing politics is.

According to him, there will be an “end of history” when the Western model of neoliberalism rules the world because all the alternatives will have been snuffed out. He stated that this moment had already arrived with the fall of the USSR.

The capitalists could relax now. The communist challenge to their rule was over.

From now on the capitalists could go berserk and ramp up their turbo-capitalism as high as they wanted with as few restrictions and as little of a safety net as possible because the only threat to capitalism had been destroyed.

I think he celebrated too soon. There were peasant rebellions a long time ago, among the Incas in the 1600’s and in Poland in the 1500’s. They …