Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama

Nationalism, the most popular and effective form of fraternity, does not only fail to sustain the other two but actively instigates its believers against them. The less we say about fraternity, the better. If equality is maintained, liberty must be compromised. Liberalism and Its Discontents by francis fukuyama farrar, straus and giroux, 192 pages, 26 T o the general public, Francis Fukuyama’s name is synonymous with the end of history thesis, which contends that since the end of the Cold War and the fall of communism, liberal democracy is the only ideology that has a universal appeal. If liberty is to be defended, equality cannot be ensured. There is an irrefutable contradiction among the three catchwords, liberty, equality and fraternity. But, Fukuyama contends, this is a distortion of.

What he conveniently forgets is that it is liberalism’s failure to appease people economically, motivate politically, and inspire intellectually that resulted in two World Wars and the inception of the most vicious forms of ‘illiberalism’ that the world has witnessed so far. Fukuyama attributes these to neoliberalism, the belief in unfettered markets as the means of delivering the goal of consumer welfare. Fukuyama pictures the nineteenth century as the heyday of classical liberalism. Historically, there is another timeline of disillusionment with liberalism which dates to the turn of the twentieth century. When noted political scientist Francis Fukuyama predicted the 'end of history,' it seemed that the Western form of traditional classical liberalism and democracyrule of law, equal treatment. But the problem lies in the foundation of such projects. He does not doubt the sincerity of these attempts to revive the classical values of liberalism. We need more thinkers as wise as Fukuyama digging their fingers into the soil of our predicament The New York Times. A defence of liberalism by the renowned political philosopher. This reviewer is not one of the sceptics. A TIMES BEST PHILOSOPHY & IDEAS BOOK OF 2022.

Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama