CCP Virus Remaking the World in China’s Image

The future darkens as differences between the West and China’s techno-dictatorship rapidly vanish

Chinese paramilitary police and guards stand in front of the entrance to the Forbidden City in Beijing on May 1, 2020. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

Commentary

In 1992, historian Francis Fukuyama wrote that the fall of the Soviet Union signaled “the end of history.”

Capitalism Won Over Marxism

While there were nuances to Fukuyama’s theory, it essentially held that in the battle between Marxism and capitalism, Marxism had lost. Communist countries from Cuba to China and everywhere in between were all abject economic failures, murderous regimes, and horrendous polluters that were absolute hellholes. The top-down, anti-God, oppressive communist system had failed to deliver on its promises in every way.