Is it true that this is now ‘the end of history’ when all struggles to improve the world are useless? Francis Fukuyama, who, as we remember, wrote The End of History and the Last Man 25 years ago, explained ‘the end of history’ as the time when there will be an end to "the struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one’s life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imaginat