The Clash of Civilizations

The historian Samuel Huntington propounded the notion of "the class of civilizations." His theory was a repudiation of the work of his former student Francis Fukuyama who wrote The End of History and the Last Man. Actually Fukuyama would repudiate his own theory in the face of a highly polarized increasingly sectarian world. The Civil War itself illustrated a similar process. Reconstruction was followed by a recidivism which fired up the roots of slavery. Today the United States is as torn as it was in the post-reconstruction period and as divided as The Middle East. There will be no winner in the current election no matter who wins. A Two State Solution? If not what will be the disposition of the current divide? Dialectical materialism is a recipe for historical evolution. In the Marxist paradigm, the clash between feudalism  and capitalism lays the way for the dictatorship of the proletariat. What if that complex and lumbering dinosaur known as democracy no longer fits the foot of modern life? What ideology, system or philosophy will succeed it?

"God Bless Pig Latin America" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star