 According to Fukuyama, liberalism's great ideological rivals failed in the long term for two reasons.  First of all, communism has the  wrong theory of economic management (40, 93–95), and could not provide long-term economic prosperity (28–29).  Thus Marx's claim that capitalism was materially unstable proved true of communism instead.  Second, following Hegel, Fukuyama asserts that only liberalism can satisfy the human desire for recognition in a stable fashion. 