Soviet planners 1940s 1. Kojeve comes up with End of History idea 2. Naive westerners (Fukuyama) start parrotting, lulled into complacency 3. Complacent West indulges in wild self-destructive behavior (imperial wars, unregulated markets. 4. And then...pic.twitter.com/2T7WvphdIB
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Complacency as expressed in academic writings, or military budgets? Maybe the latter is a better indicator of complacency?
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Military budgets continue to fall as a share of GDP. DOD was 6.5% of US GDP in 1985, compared to under 3.5% now.
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Only if a large number of people took Fukuyama seriously. I don't live in pundit-land, but I do live among intelligent, engaged people, and nobody gave a shit about his theory, which was so clearly wrong on the face of it that I couldn't imagine it having any real impact.
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But was Hegel a Soviet spy?
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This is peak Jeet
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most people think the evidence that he was a spy is pretty flimsy.
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