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Jason Williams It goes roughly in these steps:

1. America is a liberal democracy where a combination of capitalism and "moderately redistributionist" public policy ha…moreIt goes roughly in these steps:

1. America is a liberal democracy where a combination of capitalism and "moderately redistributionist" public policy have resolved problems of class and inequality.

2. There is no other and no better ideological paradigm remaining that could challenge liberal democracy. Liberal democracy is the best and there is nothing better to come.

3. America, the paragon and champion of liberal democracy, won the Cold War.

4. History is therefore over. America and all liberal democracies are now post-historical.

5. Anybody still fighting against liberal democracy remains in a state of history. They need to catch up or be caught up by force.

6. "Project for a New American Century" (a now-defunct public policy and foreign policy think tank)(less)

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I'm gearing up for summer reading and have been planning on getting to this book for a while, but before I do, for those who have read both, should I read Fukuyama's essay 'The End of History?' before the book, after or not at all? Would reading the essay change my experience reading this book?

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