The End of History and the Last Man (pdf)

It  is  Fukuyama’s  brilliantly  argued  theme  that, over time,  the economic   logic of   modern science together with the “struggle  for recogni­tion” lead to the eventual collapse  of tyrannies, as we have witnessed on both the left and right.  These  forces   drive  even  culturally   disparate   societies  toward establishing  capitalist  liberal  democracies  as  the  end  state  of  the  historical  process. The great question  then becomes:  can  liberty  and  equality,  both  political  and  eco­nomic  — the  state  of  affairs  at  the  presumed  "end  of  history" — produce  a  stable  society  in  which  man  may  be  said  to  be,  at  last,  com­pletely  satisfied?  Or will the spiritual  condition  of this “last man” in history, deprived  of outlets for his striving  for mastery,  inevitably  lead him to  plunge  himself  and  the  world  back  into  the  chaos and bloodshed  of  history?