An Analysis of Fukuyama’s “The End Of History” Francis Fukuyama contends that liberal democracy marks the end of history. By this he contends that there does not exist another political structure which can best serve all of humanity. For him, liberal democracy is the final stage in Hegel’s dialectic and will consequently spread throughout the world’s political systems. How will this political system spread? Fukuyama contends that the force that inevitable leads to a liberal democracy is that of economic activity, namely the common free market. Once every country participates in this common free market, he contends that thi