Do we live at the 'end of history'?

The term “end of history” comes from the academic works of Francis Fukuyama, who coined the term to signpost the endpoint of mankind’s ideological and socio-cultural evolution. He believed that following the collapse of communism, we reached a point where Western liberal democracy and free market neo-liberal economics had become universal, and that this constituted the final form of human government. It is clear however that despite briefly ringing true in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the USSR, it has not been true for a while and is not today, thanks mainly to the endurance and re-emergence of autocratic regimes but also the rise of populism within contemporary politics.Put simply, there are too many examples which signify irreconcilably that we do not live at the end of history. Perpetuating this belief would be to wilfully disregard the clear evidence evident in the world. Fundamentally, the fact that even Fukuyama later reassessed his own position to say that culture cannot be clearly separated from economics outlines the futility of agreeing with the notion.