By Shahab Sabahi
Energy and Environment - Policy analysis research group
Hegel believed the contradictions that drive history, had existed initially in human consciousness as ideas. For Hegel, all human behavior in the material world is rooted in a prior state of consciousness. So history is evolved as long as the contradictions are around.
“The end of history and the last man” 1992 by F. Fukuyama, argues the end of history would be liberal democracy and it would recognize and protect a system of law, human right to freedom, and democratic universal homogenous state, prosperous, and self-satisfied. He explained democracy had moved through its evolutionary process and improved through the course of time and proved to be ethically, politically, and economically better system. We can conclude that the world will converge to a dynamic equilibrium so-called “liberal democracy” with possible small fluctuation around it.
It seems liberal democracy would be the terminal station, and the perfect fit. Upon it is achieved no contradiction exists to change history and no conflicts. Is it absolute model?
Having said that no absolute exists and every social order is subject to decay, liberal democracy and capitalism are not exceptional and must reach their ends. Like communism which eventually hit its ultimate capacity and collapsed. However Karl Marx believed that the direction of historical development was purposefully determined by the interplay of material forces. He believed the history would come to its end when the communist would be achieved and all prior contradictions, the driving force of changes, would finally resolve. However this view has not been compelling any longer.
So now our world converges to liberal democracy and matured liberal democracy move along its evolutionary path. How and What would the end of democracy and capitalism look like? What should we expect to replace democracy and capitalism?
Energy and Environment - Policy analysis research group
Hegel believed the contradictions that drive history, had existed initially in human consciousness as ideas. For Hegel, all human behavior in the material world is rooted in a prior state of consciousness. So history is evolved as long as the contradictions are around.
“The end of history and the last man” 1992 by F. Fukuyama, argues the end of history would be liberal democracy and it would recognize and protect a system of law, human right to freedom, and democratic universal homogenous state, prosperous, and self-satisfied. He explained democracy had moved through its evolutionary process and improved through the course of time and proved to be ethically, politically, and economically better system. We can conclude that the world will converge to a dynamic equilibrium so-called “liberal democracy” with possible small fluctuation around it.
It seems liberal democracy would be the terminal station, and the perfect fit. Upon it is achieved no contradiction exists to change history and no conflicts. Is it absolute model?
Having said that no absolute exists and every social order is subject to decay, liberal democracy and capitalism are not exceptional and must reach their ends. Like communism which eventually hit its ultimate capacity and collapsed. However Karl Marx believed that the direction of historical development was purposefully determined by the interplay of material forces. He believed the history would come to its end when the communist would be achieved and all prior contradictions, the driving force of changes, would finally resolve. However this view has not been compelling any longer.
So now our world converges to liberal democracy and matured liberal democracy move along its evolutionary path. How and What would the end of democracy and capitalism look like? What should we expect to replace democracy and capitalism?
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