POL101Y1 Lecture 2: Was Democracy Just a Moment?

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The end of history - francis fukuyama (1992) Collapse of the soviet union indicated the end of history, as now man"s ideological evolution and liberal democracy had become the final form of human government. View of historical events as just events suspended within time with no real connections - history repeats itself just because it does - no real explanation. Greek word origins - telos: end or purpose. Holds all things to be designed or directed towards an end result. Views history as building and culminating towards some final result. Each stage of economic production contains within it the seeds of it"s own destruction. Ex: capitalism would end up producing too much and would collapse due to overproduction - thus leading to the surplus being spread among the masses - leading to socialism then communism. Fukuyama: he argues that the end of history are democracy and the free market. History has achieved its end point -

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