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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2020.21.12.709

A modeling study of the process of change to a totalitarian state : The Last Man and Venezuela  

Yoon, Hyeongho (Department of Military Science, Konyang University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.21, no.12, 2020 , pp. 709-718 More about this Journal
Abstract
Even after Fukuyama declared "The End of History" in 1989, the challenge to liberal democracy continues. Controversy about totalitarianism is constantly being raised both internally and externally in democratic countries and leaders, as well as the US-China war of supremacy. In this paper, I explored a hypothesis about the totalitarian process, and to explain this hypothesis, I analyzed the case of Venezuela, which was once referred to as a welfare model state. This paper presupposes Fukuyama's insistence on the universality of liberal democracy but considers the last man Nietzsche argues for the last man he assumes. Accordingly, the process of totalitarianism was viewed as a process in which totalitarianism was institutionalized and spread internationally through the linkage and interaction of the last fallen humans, the masses, and totalitarians in the international and domestic environments. According to this hypothesis, the Bol?var Revolution and Chavez show the process of transformation into a typical quasi-totalism. Although the Venezuelan people preferred democracy, they remained the last man who had become a man of "rich consciousness." While investigating this hypothesis, it was confirmed that extensive and interdisciplinary studies such as digital t otalitarianism and the development of science and technology should be followed.
Keywords
Last man; Mass; (Quasi-)Totalitarianism; Totalitarian; Venezuela;
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