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This article by Francis Fukuyama was written 15 years ago, in 1989, so when reviewing his points, it is important to keep in mind that the views he makes are dated. Though his views are taken 15 years ago, that should not make them obsolete, it is just important to keep the perspective of when he offered this paper.
Liberal democracy is, from reading Fukuyama's article, the democratic force that defeated fascism (Hitler) and totalitarian fanaticism (Japan) in WWII. Since there are no "viable systematic alternatives to Western liberalism," the author states, then liberal democracy must be the best system (although that ignores the huge power wielded by the Chinese form of communism). Liberalism generally is defined as a progressive form of politics, where minorities and women should be given equal rights with men, and where voters decide whom their leaders will be - and don't have big government pushed on them from uncaring bureaucrats who were not elected.
Why the state that has emerged can be described as liberal, Fukuyama writes that it is liberal because it "recognizes and protects through a system of law man's universal right to freedom" and it is democratic because "it exists only with the consent of the governed." The two enemies of liberalism, Fukuyama writes, are "fascism" and "communism."
Fukuyama writes that the twentieth century began "full of self-confidence in the ultimate triumph of Western liberal democracy" but at the end of the 1980s, he continues, seemed to be drawing to a close with an "unabashed victory of economic and political liberalism."
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