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Bad economy threatens democracy, rule of law
Judiciaries are arbiters of disputes and interpret law offering restoration of justice. But unlike the executive and legislatures, whose processes benefit from regular public participation, the Kenyan judiciary has only the limited court users committees.
Some philosophers see human history as a linear progression from one socio-economic order to the next. From feudalism to mercantilism to capitalism to socialism. Marx, for instance, believed that capitalism contains seeds of its own demise and eventually gives way to socialism.
So when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics dissolved in December 1991, some proclaimed the triumph of western style democracy over all else. Humanity has reached the end of history, Fukuyama wrote. Humanity’s ideological evolution was at an end.
