Actually, I think you're being much too kind to Fukuyama, who in my mind was not writing a serious philosophical or historical treatise but was rather beating the drum for the Reagan era as the culmination of human achievement. A kind of hackery in which he deliberately did not try to conceive of any possible challenge to his triumphalistic apotheosis.
But at this point I think we're basically talking past each other, since you want to agree with Fukuyama's conclusion and I want to point out that he's only the latest of a long line of people to posit the end of history and get it totally wrong. Go Yankees! Tom Beck "I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I didn't realize I'd also see the last." - Jerry Pournelle
