Political Order and Political Decay by fukuyama

He was right. Muslims are irrelevant and powerless in the long run and we will all be prosperous Rhineland capitalist by 2050. Prove me wrong.

>>2770446
wut
I've only read the first chapter and want to see other peoples thoughts on the book as a whole.

Only read Origins of Political Order.

It's pretty good. A solid general theory of development without the huge selection problems of Why Nations Fail or gaps of Guns, Germs, and Steel.

I still think the best big explainer book for politics is Stephen Pinker's The Blank Slate though, ironic because he's a neuroscientist not a political scientist.

Reading Blank Slate and Origins back to back would be a great start though.

>>2770496
Don't

>>2770437
Fukuyama is the worst hack of his generation. He's the humanities equivalent of a soap opera.

>>2770437
Yes.

It's well-thought out and intellectually honest.

The only bad parts are his strawman attacks on libertarians, which I hope can just be dismissed as polemic asides.

The Origins of Political Order is also good, though I personally disagree with his understanding of religion, but I can hardly blame him, and it's not that important. I'm just a nit-picky faggot.

Also, disregard anyone who calls Fukuyama a hack. These opinions are based on caricatures of his book The End of History and the Last Man, which is hardly as optimistic about liberal democracy as people think. This should be evident just given that the title refers to Nietzsche's Last Man. It shows the level of education these people have.

>>2774391
>Also, disregard anyone who calls Fukuyama a hack. These opinions are based on caricatures of his book The End of History and the Last Man, which is hardly as optimistic about liberal democracy as people think. This should be evident just given that the title refers to Nietzsche's Last Man. It shows the level of education these people have.
Ok, I'll bite.

Prove it.

Not even trying to be provocative, I would just like to hear you explain your reasoning

first time posting in this thread, btw

>>2774391
I've been interested in reading Fukuyama. What would recommend reading first?

>>2770437
He has a leftist bias to a lot of his scenarios. It is subtle and you only realize later on when you are reading the book it becomes a little preachy and opinionated. Good book overall, but like everything read it carefully.

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>>2770437
>What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such … That is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.

>>2770496
I liked it. It's a good overview of different government systems and how good systems break down as a result of similar processes. It's very well cited and a real page-turner. I learned a lot that I wouldn't have otherwise.

>>2774988
Fukuyama is a certified neocon who worked with fucking Reagan my dude.