Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History?"

In this episode, I present Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History?"
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[@cinikcynic3087]

A fantastic analysis. Thank you very much.

[@Edmonddantes123]

This channel deserves a much wider audience! Criminally underrated by the algorithm!!

[@DoggyHateFire]

I really enjoyed this explanation and I completely agree Fukuyama was so far off that looking at it now it's almost comical. One thing I never understood was why would market capitalism necessarily lead to social liberalism. China's "economic reforms" didn't lead to increased political freedom at all. Fukuyama is basically just there to make the rich and powerful feel less guilty about their immense wealth.

[@numbersix8919]

Ah gahd Fukuyama. I only listened to this to get David's take on it. Very glad I did! Universal Homogeneous State...truly this is the ideology of the neoliberals and their neoconservative enforcers. Versus "Hegel's vision playing itself out" -- very good! This is super relevant to China's manifesto and Putin's speech yesterday. PS The successful communist revolutions of the 20th C were peasant revolutions, true, but they weren't forced on the millions by strong-man dictators. How the USSR and PRC evolved, during and after their revolutions, in relation to their Enlightenment goals is another matter.

[@J1mston]

When you are examining a person who had as much acclaim as Fukuyama, if the conclusion you come to is that they got something wrong then my advice would be to revisit the subject. This goes for more than just Fukuyama, people get to where they end up not through chance or being bad at something. If you’ve not got to their level then try to remove your biases and reexamine it.

[@olisorenson]

In line with Fukuyama, Can you cover Harari's Homo Deus pls ?

[@1848revolt]

My brother bought me a book from him. I dropped it in the trash.

[@sunshineetall2611]

I send u love and appreciation for ur simplification of ideas, and your southing voice... Actually i find your explanations really understandable especially when u use french terms since i do speak it.

[@matthewdoherty9068]

Thanks!

[@TheoryPhilosophy]

Thank YOU!

[@gratefuldudegaming.8170]

According to Kojeve, how does the movement of history, culminating in a universal and homogeneous state, resolve the otherwise irresolvable tension or conflict between tyranny and wisdom? Why do you think leo strauss rejects this resolution?

[@Enkaptaton]

"Ideology is gonna be primarily motivated by the economic conditions that make that ideology possible" ... huh I just wanted to know whats that Fukuyama dude wants to tell us, but now I came to a point, where I have to stop the video and repeat it several times, just to understand a sentence :D Great! I subscribed.

[@jopeDE]

great video. thx :)

[@nicoles3166]

even canada has the same sort of political problem with the only choices being strictly within a capitalist framework it’s hard to call any politician a leftist. their left wing goes as far as lukewarm acceptance of marginalized people.

[@stijnvansevenant7528]

When your views become so radical that you can't even see a left politician in a objectively left country (even compared to european standards), leads me to think that your ideas are a little bit too radical don't you think?

[@epicphailure88]

​@@stijnvansevenant7528 I live in Canada and I wish our country was left. All our parties are different shades of Neoliberalism.

[@nicoles3166]

@@stijnvansevenant7528 european standards? left politician? you must be very lost and confused! the anglo sphere has zero idea what leftism looks like outside of their country sometimes huh? “objectively leftist country” jfc read a book look at politics in south america or any other continents that aren’t europe, north america, and the south pacific… ya know where everybody else lives? the people we keep impoverished for our own benefit… yeah they happen to be a lot more left wing and actually trying socialist experiments but sure canada is objectively left and i’m the radical for agreeing w the billions of other people who live under the wests imperial control

[@nicoles3166]

@@stijnvansevenant7528 you’re just radically politically illiterate

[@amirhosseinbushehri9200]

great video tnx

[@eldritchmonsterofnorfolk7253]

Excellent summary! I adore the fact that you brought up the lack of bodily autonomy under the current liberal US govt considering the whole Hegelian aspect. To Fukuyama I have one thing to say: OK boomer. 🙄

[@stijnvansevenant7528]

Just ou of curiosity: dont you think it is a bit bizar for him to critize fukuyama for a period which happened after his book on that subject? The argument that he supported the bush argument does also not seem te cut it for me: it is not because you support the whole that you cant be critical about that thing right?

[@jeffwilliams1308]

"Left wing politics in the US is conservative politics in Canada." We know.

[@andreeaalexandru7811]

12:00 As an expert of Marx, you miss to see that no Communism anywhere in the world happened on the basis of economics. When the 1917 Revolution occurred, Russia's economic disaster could have turned the country into Capitalism. What created Communism was always a fluke, and after it was implemented and forced as ideology, it was blamed on the economy. It did not come because of economics; the elites said it came as they had to legitimise themselves. Bad economics create conflict, but ideologies outside the centre/capitalism/liberalism come from malevolent individuals. As we can see, in good liberal societies, people see inequality. Still, they don't see the far more inequalities in worse liberal societies outside the West, not because it is not there, but because the meta-narrative is controlled by Neo Marxist scholars.

[@jvpresnall]

Maybe as a public/popular proposal for a plan of strategic policy aimed largely at American and Western European audience, the contradictions and inconsistencies can be accounted for in terms of the argument being exoteric, following in the vein of his “Straussian” education at Telluride House with Allan Bloom at Cornell. Perhaps, he has much more critical and popularly unpersuasive thoughts regarding “liberal democratic” and capitalist societies. He offers this just so story as a palliative belying a deeper cynicism and/or pessimism.

[@1callicles]

Agree. You can track Fukuyama's esoteric meaning through his footnotes. The true text begins there.

[@jameshammond3823]

I was liking this channel I’ll probably still watch but did we really need the great man left anti-communism?

[@swr3603]

Typing away at the comments to say the ussr was communist but in the good way

[@alexandreorion33]

J'espère ne pas être pris pour un 'réactionnaire', mais je suis aussi de l'avis que nulle part aucun état n'était vraiment Marxiste dans le sens de Marx lui-même. J'avais admiré le roman de William Morris (1891), qui fit le portrait d'un état (ou peut-être pas un "état" en tant que tel) régi par les principes détaillés par Marx. On peut comprendre une lecture erronée de Hegel ...

[@MagnumInnominandum]

End of History? Not even the end of pinhead proclamations confidently propounded. Were it only so. 😢

[@Sandra-hc4vo]

Thanks! interesting.

[@andreeaalexandru7811]

Min 6, Communism does what? You lost me here, probably because you are from Canada.

[@imiikhan]

🖤🖤

[@super8mmo]

You are wrong.

[@numbersix8919]

That's all my neocon buddy can say too.

[@1848revolt]

Francis is a girl's name. The idea that liberal democracy and capitalism is the end of history is a pathetic proposition.

[@Ken19700]

Marx was just wrong.

[@andreeaalexandru7811]

10:50, it is not really that Ironic. It's a consequence of the push for meaning and anti-secularism.

[@LimeyRedneck]

When I first heard the 'end of history' idea in the late '90s I thought it sounded dumb. The only way I thought it could end is if people didn't exist anymore.

[@joshcotlar2099]

Interesting arguments but I feel more that Fukuyama’s interpretation is not so much a misreading of Hegel as it is an active interpretative disagreement about history. It is an independent argument, and I think that’s made obvious by his attempt at negotiating Hegel’s end of history with Nietzsche’s Last man.

[@thekratomchannel]

Real communism has never been tried. Very hard to argue against a claim like this.

[@schadowizationproductions6205]

An analysis of capitalism is an exact prescription of communism that inherently leads to authoritarianism and suffering that can't happen in capitalist countrys. Also hard to argue against but at least not impossible if taken seriously. ;)

[@thekratomchannel]

@@schadowizationproductions6205 not sure I understand your claims but we could look at historical examples and easily make claims about which systems produce which results. However if real communism is purely an ideal and has never been actualized then its whatever people want it to be which is particularly devastating when an idea like this gets taken up by the masses.

[@steviewonder417]

@@thekratomchannel real communism is China right now. They are crushing. Will be largest economy in the world in a few years. Capitalism hasn’t existed for damn near a century. Most of what is positively attributed to capitalism’s success is really bourgeoise socialism or in other words fascism, if you like. 40 hour work week? Fascists did that. No more children working in mines? Fascists did that too. Fascism has achieved most goals of communism lol.

[@mondrian42]

Was thinking that if the argument is "real communism has never been implemented" then the capitalists can use that same argument. Not sure I agree but any system could work if you took humans out of the equation. Maybe AI governance is the right way to go?

[@thekratomchannel]

@@mondrian42 I think people have a right to give it a try.