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[Title] The End of History and the Last Man [Author] Francis Fukuyama [Rating] ★★★★ [Year] 2006 [Read] 2004/01/01 [Review] 
I’ve bumped this to 4 stars as, thinking back on the ~decade since I read this, Fukuyama is still right and yet no one seems to get this. People, look at the Arab Spring. Did it yield any caliphates, say? Anarchistic self-governing communes? Self-governing city-states? Hanseatic Leagues? Or look at official rhetoric in places like China. Look at the gradual and continuing expansion of capitalism and democracy as the defaults for every country. Look at the discrediting of Putin’s Russian cronyism approach, or at the Muslim world’s shift away from marginal Salafist groups like al-Qaeda. Fukuyama was right. There are no credible alternatives to the capitalist liberal democracy paradigm.
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