Fukuyama, Gramscian
[more from Lieven on Fukuyama]
In defense against the charge that he himself helped initiate the
Bush Administration’s revolutionary attitude to spreading democracy,
Fukuyama stresses in his latest book that The End of History
described a democratic capitalist version of an anti-Leninist Marxian
approach–stressing slow cultural, social and economic change, not
sudden revolution. He maintains that he is a Gramscian, emphasizing
the intellectual and cultural hegemony of capitalist democracy, not
claiming that it would inevitably work well everywhere or solve all
problems. By contrast, he describes the Bush Administration as having
become “Leninist” in its belief that history can be subjected to
violent pushes.