06 April, 2011

The End of History came like a theif in the night.

I am starting to think that in a sense 1990 was the end of history, with the collapse of the Soviet Union the Hegelian dialectic was completed in modern Capitalism.
So you hear: Communism is dead, Capitalism and democracy are the victors.
now all that remains to do is consolidate the strangler countries into global capitalism and democracy. The Neo-Conservative narrative. But what is interesting is that it is also the Neo-Liberal narrative too. So the political dialectic we see in the world today is one where with in the entire political body all opposition is with in the victor.
Marxism and Capitalism did not synthesize. One was defeated thereby breaking the waltz. (thesis, antithesis, synthesis.)
So now all opposition (that exists on a level of meaningful political power) is within the context of Capitalist Democracy.
And islamo-fascism and such are projected as opponents, but only in an insincere way. No one can look at any of those movements as anything but an out growth of Capitalism.
So when the Marxist speaks to day you always hear the same reply: "Capitalism won, its over."
But what is it that is over? What was it that Capitalism and Communism were fighting over?
They were fighting to be the end of history in the Hegelian sense.
And now the next move in history is by necessity a non Hegelian move. So of course the story isn't over... but the part of it that is refereed to as 'history' with in the Hegelian system is over.

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