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FOLLOWING the collapse of socialism in eastern Europe, back in the early 1990s that false prophet of the neoliberal establishment Francis Fukuyama announced “the end of history” and the universalisation of Western liberal democracy as the ultimate in human governance.
He was riding on what appeared to be a tidal wave of global capitalist advance — Fukuyama wasn’t prescient enough to see the 2008 crash coming.
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