Today, more than twenty years after Fukuyama wrote, it is time to ask whether secular liberal Western societies still appear to the eyes of humankind to provide the best option. So it happened in Russia and in Eastern Europe, and so it seems to be happening with the progressive opening of the market in China. Following a Hegelian perspective, Fukuyama said contrary to Marx that communism, like the other previous economic-political systems that are not liberal, has been only a step to achieve a liberal society. He argues that the end of fascism and of communism means the triumph of Eastern liberalism in history. When the Cold War was ended in 1989, Francis Fukuyama wrote, three years later, his very well-known book proposing a quite original thesis.
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