End of History Author Francis Fukuyama Thinks Leftist Identity Politics Helped Create Trump

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End of History Author Francis Fukuyama Thinks Leftist Identity Politics Helped Create Trump
Plus: Why Jordan Peterson may be right about postmodern neo-Marxism.

Robby Soave|Aug. 31, 2018 2:10 pm

FukuyamaPanayotis Tzamaros/ABACA/NewscomIn an interview with The Chronicle of Higher Education, Francis Fukuyama—author of the much-debated 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man—laments that leftist identity politics provoked a backlash from the populist right, which in turn gave rise to Donald Trump.

According to Fukuyama:

    A great deal of modern politics is about the demand of that inner self to be uncovered, publicly claimed, and recognized by the political system.

    A lot of these recognition struggles flow out of the social movements that began to emerge in the 1960s involving African-Americans, women, the LGBT community, Native Americans, and the disabled. These groups found a home on the left, triggering a reaction on the right. They say: What about us? Aren't we deserving of recognition? Haven't the elites ignored us, downplayed our struggles? That's the basis of today's populism.

https://reason.com/blog/2018/08/31/francis-fukuyama-identity-politics-trump

[Sanguine]

I like this guy:

    Q. You have an unusual background for a political scientist. You majored in classics at Cornell, then did graduate work in comparative literature at Yale, where you studied with Paul de Man. Later you spent time in Paris sitting in on classes with Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida. Any memories from this journey through deconstruction.

    A. I decided it was total bullshit. They were espousing a kind of Nietzschean relativism that said there is no truth, there is no argument that's superior to any other argument. Yet most of them were committed to a basically Marxist agenda. That seemed completely contradictory. If you really are a moral relativist, there is no reason why you shouldn't affirm National Socialism or the racial superiority of Europeans, because nothing is more true than anything else. I thought it was a bankrupt way of proceeding and decided to shift gears and go into political science.

[goatprairie]

I like this guy:

I didn't read Fukuyama's book "The End Of History" where we obviously aren't near the end of history. In his book, Fukuyama attempted to explain that after the fall of communism, the world was settled on the right course.
We all know Marxists/leftists never give up. Plus, we have the rise of Islamism.
But as far as deconstruction, Derrida, Foucault and all the other "post-modernists" he's right...they're all full of bovine fecal matter. They profess to say nobody's truth is more important than somebody elses, but they all fall into the anit-capitalism camp. Fools more than anything else.

[Fishrrman]

"Francis Fukuyama—author of the much-debated 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man..."

With a title and book like that, he ended whatever credibility he might have ever had.

How presumptuous to believe and postulate that "history" (in his time) had come to "an end".

September 11, 2001 blew that theory to pieces.