Activists rally in front of the New York Times building in midtown Manhattan in New York on Sunday, February 26, 2017. Richard B. Levine/SIPA USA/PA Images. All rights reserved.
The end of history, which Francis Fukuyama predicted in his famous essay, and the triumph of the liberal order - with the speedy conversion through the powerful transformative dynamics of capitalist globalization of both large and small autocracies into liberal democracies – simply has not happened. And the flat world foreseen by Thomas Friedman has turned out to be quite an uphill one.
Liberal democracy, a system which was invented for viewing politics as the art of seeking the common good, for prevailing over and regulating the market forces, the authoritarian tendencies linked to the accumulation of power, and the exclusionary nature of majorities, has not apparently overcome its intrinsic contradictions.
