#BTColumn - Vladimir Putin and the western liberal elites
In 1992 political theorist Francis Fukuyama published his highly acclaimed text ‘The End of History and the Last Man’. The central thesis was that Liberal democracy had ultimately triumphed over Socialist communism. The victorious democratic capitalist state, he suggested represented the last ideological stage in the progression of human history. Capitalism and market forces were evidently superior and centrally planned command style economies had proven their inherent inefficiency.To all intents and purposes claimed Fukuyama, history had ended and so was the Cold War. Europe and the Weste...
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