Postmodernism’s claim that history is over is an act of Western cultural elitism.

Evidence

For something to become popular entails a struggle; it is never a simple process, as Gramsci reminded us. It doesn’t just happen. And that means there must be always some distance between the immediate practical consciousness or common sense of ordinary people, and what it is possible for them to become. I don’t think that history is finished and the assertion that it is, which lies at the heart of postmodernism, betrays the inexcusable ethnocentrism—the Eurocentrism—of its high priests. It is their cultural dominance, in the West, across the globe, which is historically at an end. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 734

Categorization

• SEED: Angle for an essay: the ‘end of history’ thesis as itself a colonial gesture — how Fukuyama’s and Baudrillard’s endings serve Western self-reassurance.
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that the West declares history finished precisely because its own dominance is ending inverts the standard reading and rewards extended reflection.