Room to grow?

[Re-visionist 05]

recently, i read a really brief summery of the works of a guy named fukuyama. While his death of marxism theory is pretty much a complete load of bull, he brought an interesting thought to mind.

Is it possible for any completly new and original "isms" to come about?

What do you all think about it?

[redstar2000]

In the historical materialist paradigm, "isms" originate in the class structure of a given society.

So in order for there to be a genuinely "new ism", it would require a new form of class society to emerge.

That does not seem to be "on history's agenda".

Instead, what we see as capitalism ages is a recycling of older "isms".

For example, that guy you read (Fukuyama) is a neo-Hegelian. Unlike Hegel, who thought that the highest form of society was the Prussian despotism, Fukuyama thinks that bourgeois "democracy" is the "end of history".

Another guy that's very popular with the ruling class is Leo Strauss...who favors a "kind and gentle" fascism (according to Plato).

And in the U.S., of course, we have Christian Fascism...an "updated" version of the clerical fascism that existed between the two world wars.

What is striking about late capitalist ideologues is that they have indeed seemingly "run out of ideas"...pretty much everything they have to say now is reactionary.

I think that's a "hint" of just how close, historically speaking, they are to their own end times.

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