FROM THE END OF HISTORY TO 2016
by Kenan Malik
© Art Projects International; Courtesy of artist and Art Projects International, New York . ‘What we may be witnessing is the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.’ So wrote Francis Fukuyama in his seminal 1989 essay ‘The End of History?’. ‘With the fall of the Soviet Union’, Fukuyama continued, ‘The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one’s life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide […]
Categories: Politics • Tags: 2016, end of history, francis fukuyama, identity politics, left, managerialism, populism, working class
