The End of History

>>2475256
>Was Fukuyama wrong about the End of History

Almost certainly.

>will there ever be an end to history that favors capitalism/liberal democracy like the one he postulated?

Personally, I don't think so myself. But I don't exactly have a doctorate in that kind of macro-historical prediction.

>Was it the product of 90s hype

Pretty much. The cold war was OVER. Liberal democracy had won after decades of public belief (whether or not it was actually justified) that the button could be pushed at any time and everyone would be dead in a massive nuclear war. That kind of apocalyptic mass belief tends towards a view that this conflict is the last major one ever, and once it's over, some way or another, there will be no more.

The end of history happens during the Great White Throne Judgement, after Christ returns to gather the believers and destroy the wicked.

>>2475256
>Was Fukuyama wrong about the End of History
Yes, he even said so hmself.

>>2475275 has it right.

Pretty much everything involved in the end of history has been categorically debunked academics in history, political science, and macroeconomics. Even at the height of its acceptance, the "end of history" was mostly just pop theory. The media ran with it, but it came under blistering critique pretty early on. Since writing it, even Fukuyama himself has tried pretty hard to distance himself from the book.

It's just the height of post-Cold War triumphalism. The world had been embroiled in a major ideological struggle for so long that people had pushed a lot of other meaningful and pressing questions into the periphery. We're already seeing major breakdowns on the question of nationalism vs globalism, because the Cold War had created an international system that was untenable without an external foe to unite against.