History Never Ended

I think its fair to say that the era of political 'globalisation' .....

A Popular Movement Defeated Marcos

 ..... could perhaps be said to have started when the US refused to give political support to the autocratic President Marcos in the Philippines in 1986.

China's Eternal Rulers

I have always harboured thoughts that the Communist Chinese system of one party capitalism would prove far harder to eradicate ....

Chinese Communist Parties Heavenly Rule - Intended To Be As Eternal As Any Emperors.

..... than the state run nationalised economy communism of the old USSR (and indeed Mao's China).

The End of History or a New World Order?

When Soviet style “Communism” collapsed in Russia in the early 1990’s (but not in China), a historian (Francis Fukuyama), made a few bucks, with a statement (pamphlet and later a book), claiming that history had ended, and that Liberal Democratic Capitalism had won.

 

The End Of History Was Wrong

 

He further stated that from then on, Democracy and Free Trading would spread round the globe, and all our problems would be over.