Fukuyama renounces Neoconservatism

[Hurin_Rules]

In another sign of the times, one of the leading architects of Neoconservatism, Francis Fukuyama, has publically denounced the movement:

Francis Fukuyama, who wrote the best-selling book The End of History and was a member of the neoconservative project, now says that, both as a political symbol and a body of thought, it has "evolved into something I can no longer support". He says it should be discarded on to history's pile of discredited ideologies.

In an extract from his forthcoming book, America at the Crossroads, Mr Fukuyama declares that the doctrine "is now in shambles" and that its failure has demonstrated "the danger of good intentions carried to extremes".

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=266122006

As an historian myself, I was shocked that so eminent an academic as Fukuyama could publish such patently absurd, ahistorical drivel as The End of History. (He was not trained as an historian, BTW, so I think my discipline can still salvage some pride in that). But I've got to give him credit for owning up to his mistake, getting off the sinking ship and moving on. Note, however, that he was one of the leading intellectuals of the neoconservative movement and was given a position on the President's Council on Bioethics by the Bush Administration.

[Vladimir]

Neocon = Old lib

I read about him in the FDD website. Now I guess he's a Neo Wilsonian


http://www.defenddemocracy.org/publi...?doc_id=365969

[lancelot]

Wow, Fukuyama is a well known name in my course's study areas also...very interesting.