@bloombergpolitics: Francis Fukuyama's 1989 essay “The End of History?” argued that liberal democracy would not only defeat communism, but that its partisans might miss the “courage, imagination and idealism” that defined the ideological battle. The Stanford professor joins Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal on the Odd Lots podcast to discuss how his argument has evolved since the end of the Cold War and what's driving today's extremist ideology. #news #Politics #democracy #professor #History
I actually feel bad for Fukuyama because he published something successful, got immediately proven wrong, and has spent the last twenty five years being dunked on while having to argue water isn't wet
2026-09-18 12:19:25
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The Evil One :
“i got it wrong, let me change”
2026-09-18 02:17:02
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DrWilde :
Fukuyama’s book was not very good. It just agreed with what the then ruling elites wanted to hear. Read Derrida’s Specters of Marx for an incisive criticism.
2026-09-18 17:29:37
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Ted :
It’s painful watching so many people misunderstand Fukiyama’s work. It’s obvious no one read it malign his writings just because they never read it.
2026-09-18 02:16:11
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user8167891247862 :
I mean the biggest mistake he made was thinking capitalism was a self improving system instead of something spurned to be better by competing systems (the USSR) so when the competition went away capitalism fell into its worse impulses with no lever to counter it. It wasn’t boredom that destroyed the system it was the system itself thinking it could do whatever it wanted with no consequences
2026-09-18 04:56:57
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Doug Garrison :
Poor Frank has had to explain this for the last four decades 😂
2026-09-18 01:55:16
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Abity :
brilliant man 🔥
2026-09-18 00:58:03
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ZX :
Dude try to walk back a whole book 💀
2026-09-18 23:03:14
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Belinda Smith :
No one should be taking Hegel that deeply-
2026-09-18 06:21:31
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Meh :
The communists thought the end of history was the classless stateless society. Not Soviet communism.
2026-09-18 17:08:35
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Yung Old Man :
Mr Fukuyama pls end history again thank you
2026-09-18 21:05:35
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Edge_Runner2077 :
Mfw my entire argument relied on the USSR and its allies entirely being “communism”, communism having no relation to the working class at all, class struggle not existing at all, and the 20th Century being the main event of human history that defined everything before it and after it
2026-09-18 11:51:06
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Smiley :
"communism" is misused by Fuk, as well as Stalin- type state Marxists,
2026-09-18 19:09:59
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Vincent :
As for Fukuyama’s “end of history” thesis, I don’t think his mistake came from a flaw in his study of human history itself. Rather, the problem was that he interpreted history through the lens of a particular ideology that happened to be ascendant at the time.
2026-09-18 16:49:05
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arthurgoudey :
looolllll backtrack much?
2026-09-18 22:18:55
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Apple User436436 :
Bro got buried by that one sentence
2026-09-18 01:55:06
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Tijose :
The end of history is Freedom, Perfection or Absolute Moral Kingdom. What do we have !!? Is this morality for you!!?
2026-09-18 05:45:47
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JimnyPickett :
Seems like Huntington was more right no?
2026-09-18 15:32:15
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sammyari115 :
Soviet Union was state capitalism, and you know that very well. das capital of Marx is all mathematical showing how value created and how people get exploited. it is not ideology or theory. and as long as there are Wage Labourer System and private ownership then you have capitalism.
2026-09-18 08:30:22
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jamesrmy42f :
Plato describes how democracy degrades to oligarchy. Bit of an oversight to forget that.
2026-09-18 20:28:42
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peppersmackthesage :
Simpler way to put it, humans will never be content.
2026-09-18 13:28:16
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Puddlejumper :
Human nature will drive progress until we cease to exist. Humans will never be happy as cows.
2026-09-18 11:08:08
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Frage des Tages :
No idea about German language but understanding Hegel?
2026-09-18 16:25:13
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Bolshevism Returns :
It was not the end in litterally any sense.
2026-09-18 21:55:46
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is.461 :
the faustian spirit will come again
2026-09-18 21:33:38
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