Demokratia
7 November 2007 • capitalism, democracy, herberthoover, johnlangdondavies, karlmarx, politics, prediction, prohibition, quote
Top 87 bad predictions about the future. A few caught my eye.
Democracy will be dead by 1950.
—- John Langdon-Davies
Well, maybe he was wrong about the year.
Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far reaching in purpose.
—- Herbert Hoover on Prohibition
That’s not a prediction! It was certainly wrong, though.
Capitalist production begets, with the inexorability of a law of nature, its own negation.
—- Karl Marx
A bad prediction, eh? Don’t get too cocky there. We haven’t reached the end of history yet.