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Compare and assess the accounts of political transformation in the thought…

- - - - Identity and Trump, as threats.
- - - - Meanwhile Fukuyama presents well a two progoned defence of liberalism, but remains too pessemtic with too greatwer a fear of the development of new rights and lacking the third element of defence for liberal democracy, he value of self detemrination.
- - - - He presents Marxism as a methodology instead of a sticit, unchangable ideology that can be, and needs to be, molded to work in the context of the global south (Rodney, 2022).
        
        With this development for Marxism to fit the socio-economic condiations of each country, Marxism becomes the only ideology that can properly deliver liberation and economic development (Rodney, 2022).
  - - - In this aregument he offers two reasonings for why liberalism marks the end point of human thought: economics, the idea that no system can produce as much wealth as capitalism, and the fullfillment of our desires for recorgintion, which only through the principles of liberalism can be truly fullfilled (Fukuyama, 1992, ppxi-xxiii).
        
        The issue of recorgination concerns Fukyama as he fears the growth of excessive implention of new rights that may change the rights enshrined in the Decleration of Indpendence or Constitution and begin to blur the line of humanity.
    - - He also misses an important defence of liberal democracy which is that it fullfills the desire for self determination and therefore can be more resilent then autocracies to crisis.
- - - - However, this statement and his later arguement that bourgeois economics have been ineffective in deveoping the Third World (Rodney, 2022) can be empircally tested by using two countries, North Korea and Vietnam, that Rodney describes as Marxist ssuccess stories (2022) and looking at their trajectories.
        
        Although since 2012 and the rise of Kim Jung Un the North Korean state has, tentivly, offered some economic reforms through increased freedom to managers and the creation of Special Economic Zones, economic growth has been stagnent (NK book, get proper cite).
        
        The economy remains firmly a control economy and the economy has not grown in the last 12 years, the only economic devleopment is the growing presence of China in the economy and the countries slow morphing into a informal colony as Chinese trade makes up 91% of non-inter Korea trade (NK book).
        
        Compare this with the economy of Vietnam which went through a process of market reforms in the late 80s and has resulted in the collapse of poverty from 49% in 1992 to 3.23% in 2012 (NK book).
        
        When these reforms were passed North Korea was the larger economy, since then the Vietnamese economy has ecliplised it (NK book).
        
        Although Rodney was writing from before these events, it makes his claims that only Marxism can develop the Third World disproven. The different trajectories of these two countries demonstrates at least that Marxism is not the only tool for development, but more realsitically that some form of marketistion is the best tool for development.
  - - - While Fukuyama defends liberalism from the pespective of the strong economic foundations of capitalism and the value of liberal democracy's ability to provide us with recogination (Fukuyama, 1992), he leaves out this third defence.
        
        The power of liberal democracy is that, when the governemnt is under challange, instead of the amsses needing to use violence there are legimate means to force reform. This means in times of economic stagnation people don't need to enage in violent insurection.
        
        This is evidenced by the Arab Spring where protests took place in 10 countries and in Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya, Egypt and Tunisia these protests saw either violent clashes between the government and the people, regime change or both (Dalacoura, 2011, pp63-66).
        
        What connected all 6 of these countries was their lack of political freedom according to both Freedom House and Economist Inteligence Unit (cites).
        
        When we compare the examples of Tunisia and Lebanon we see that both countries were suffering from both economic and political defiencies (Dalacoura, 2011, pp66-67 and IMF cite). However, only in Tunisia were the protests large and regime changey.
        
        This evidences Fukuyama's blind spot. Although he sees the value in economics and recorgination iberalalism provides a screate benefit, control over ones life. Wheather that is in the economic sphere where economic dream espoused by Fukuyama is one of a metrotic, socially mobile economy (1992) or in the balot booth where a decison is made on ones future completely devoid of external recorgination.
        
        While Lebanon has faced protests durring and after the Arab Spring, these protests have not led to a complete colapse of the system and ideological regime change. ALthough theprotests demonstrate the tensions in democracy thye also demonstrate is ability to survive.
        
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        Meanwhile, four other countries saw some protests and these were generally more liberal states in the region (cites).
- - - - Issue of feasability, i.e. the defecit in each thinkers thought
        
        Strength of Fukuyama's work (e.g. his failure is not being pro-liberalism enough).
        
        Conculsion
        
        Maybe idenity here if there's enough words