The end of history and the success of the liberal essay
Economic and political liberalism as 'the end of history as such: that is, the end point of humanity's ideological evolution'. The characterization is close to Kuhn's scientific revolutions, which are non-cumulative developmental episodes in which an older paradigm is replaced. in whole or in part by an incompatible new copy. The French Revolution was a turning point in world history that began and ended in the 1950s with the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. During this period, French citizens are radical. Rereading the essay, Fukuyama shudders at his young self's grandiose statements about the end point of humanity's ideological evolution and the universalization of the Western world..