Francis Fukuyama's new book, 'Identity', analyses the factors that influence ideological progress. It considers dignity as well as recognition and the limits imposed on them.
A quarter-century after he wrote it, people are still arguing about Francis Fukuyama’s thesis in— often on the basis of misunderstanding or because it posits an “end of history” other than the Marxist one, in which history “ends” in socialism or communism . Here, an “end” is as much a goal as an actual moment of finality. For Marxists, history is driven by class struggle, but in a communist state class struggle is over, so history ends.
Fukuyama’s new book considers the forces pushing, on the one hand, towards Denmark, and, on the other, retarding that progress. Identity is the unavoidable lens through which political developments are examined. This Fukuyama does in Identity. Fukuyama draws on notions of dignity and recognition to show how cleavages develop in societies that had seemed to agree on rights and the duties of the state. The age-old determinant of political allegiance, the competition for resources, is filtered through the subjective self-understanding of citizens clinging to their social standing and thus their conception of what is due to them.
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