After the revelations of the outrages of the Cultural Revolution and the Gulag system, together with the 1989 collapse of the Soviet system, it seemed that Communism as a political force was ended. Even those who had proclaimed themselves Communists deserted what must surely be a sinking ship. The proclamation of the end of history was, fundamentally, the proclamation that Communism had finally been dispatched and the liberal or neoliberal consensus established around the world.
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