![]() Fukuyama was no liberal-democratic Candide. “The End of History” was, of course, not about the end of history understood as a series of events, but about the fact that liberal democracy had become the highest form of modern politics as it rather successfully ensured peace and prosperity for a relatively large part of the world, while all alternatives – especially communism – failed spectacularly. After the essay was published, he worked on a book developing his ideas on the same subject, which was published three years later. When he published his essay in the National Interest (a center-right intellectual magazine), he was a mandarin employed by Republican administrations. “The End of History,” the title of Francis Fukuyama’s essay published in the summer of 1989, brought him fame and was also his curse, as it was often deeply misunderstood. There are few people whose image is so strongly associated with a single catchphrase.
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