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The OP I’m pretty sure is being sarcastic and referring to this obnoxious book by Francis Fukuyama: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_history

He had this absurd premise that because the Soviet Union collapsed and free trade was surging every place everywhere would coalesce to a boring democracy.

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they did say "the end of 'end of history'" so maybe there is more to untangle than the postmodern idea of what Fukuyama was having his night-terrors about. I fear it's even more "meta" and also a reference to this old Churchill quote about war:

> "Now this is not the end of end of history. It is not even the beginning of the end of end of history. But it is, perhaps, the end of the end of the beginning."

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