Branko Milanovic pronicljivo ugotavlja, da ne samo, da “liberalni kapitalizem” ni triumfiral leta 1989 s padcem železne zavese, kot je to v “Koncu zgodovine” napovedal Francis Fukuyama, pač pa tudi, da pridevnik “liberalni” ni upravičen. Namreč tisto, kar naj bi bilo “liberalnega” oziroma “demokratičnega” v zahodnih demokracijah po drugi svetovni vojni, nosi velike madeže nedemokratičnosti – od uničenja sindikalnih gibanj in izobčenja komunističnih strank do nesramežljivega podpiranja diktatur tako v Evropi kot v državah v razvoju. “Liberalni kapitalizem” (kako liberalen / demokratičen je ob koncentraciji lastništva proizvodnih sredstev in premoženja v rokah bogate manjšine sploh lahko kapitalizem ?!?) je protisloven že v imenu, in kar danes gledamo kot navidez njegov kolaps, je samo ena izmed mnogih stalnih kriz v njegovi evoluciji
The post-1989 narrative that was, often for self-serving reasons, promulgated in both the academic and popular circles in the West (and in the former Eastern bloc for obvious reasons) saw the period after the end of World War II as a victory of liberal capitalist democracy that was not allowed to take place in some parts of the world because of the imposition of Soviet “glacis”. Once the Soviet pressure relaxed all these countries, and of course all the others (according to the triumphalist narrative) from Iraq to China, saw, or will soon see, the advantages of liberal capitalism and adopt the system. It was a very simple and seductive narrative. While Fukuyama’s original essay was based on important, Hegelian historical and ideological precedents, it gradually got watered-down into a simplified Hollywoodesque story of a battle of good and evil—where it was even incomprehensible how the “evil” (except for its intrinsic “evilness”) was able to put up such a good fight for decades.

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