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How social media and messaging platforms played a role in recent political unrest in venezuela and brazil. Good morning. Buenos dias. Im glad to see that most of you survived the aztec patio last night which was very good. We have a tremendous panel this morning and a great subject. Its not news to say that the world is facing a time of change, uncertainty, the liberal, multilateral order that we were accustomed to is fraying. Nationalism and populism are on the rise. The geopolitics is back, autocracy has been on the rise, liberal democracy has been on the defensive in many ways. Latin america is no stranger to those trends. This year, last year marks the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the third wave, what Samuel Huntington called the third wave of democratization and latin america was a big protagonist of that, moving very swiftly from dictatorship as the predominant form of government to democracy. In the last couple of years weve had many elections in the region, and i think
This was written just before the collapse of the soviet union and thehe idea was there did sem to be this process of modernization. That was development. People want to live in modern societies the kind of modern society that we seem to be any at that with liberal democracy and marketbased capitalism that socialism. And assist with getting off this train of history one stop before the communist marxist said we would get off. Professor Francis Fukuyama you were talking there in 26 about 1992 book the end of history and the last man. Did what you said about liberal democracy, as a standup today . Guest yeah, actually that clip was remarkably coherent. Since 2006 i think we seen a lot of regression in the progress of democracy all over the world. Freedom house, that tracks global democracy has noted we had 17 consecutive years of decline in the aggregate amount of democracy. I think the world really looks different in many ways than it did back man. But the question i was trying to raise
Liberalism and its discontent. Humankind over the centuries has seen an evolution. We go from hunter gatherers to Agricultural Societies up through the industrial revolution. There is a process in which social institutions become more complex. They develop certain features. Marx said this process would culminate in a communist utopia. I think most progressive intellectuals for the 100 50 years after the communist manifesto believed the history would be communism. My argument was we did not seem to be going there. This was just before the collapse of the soviet union. The idea was there was this process of modernization. People wanted to live in modern societies but the kind of modern society was liberal democracy and marketbased capitalism, not socialism. We are getting off this train of history one stop before marx said we would get off. Professor Francis Fukuyama. You were talking in 2000 six about your 1992 book, the end of history and the last man. What you said, does it stand up t