end of history

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end of history

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Popularized by the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama in his book The End of History and the Last Man (1992), based on an article he wrote in 1989.

proper noun the end of history

A political or philosophical concept positing that a certain political, economic or social system will be the last one that humanity develops. […]I argued that liberal democracy may constitute the “end point of mankind's ideological evolution” and the “final form of history” and as such constituted the “end of history”.
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中文	歷史的終結 /历史的终结 lìshǐ de zhōngjié

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@misc{end_of_history_2026,
  title = {end of history},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/end%20of%20history},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}