During the 19th and 20th centuries, Socialism and Communism were purported to be sciences that could make predictions about the future. The Soviet Union event

During the 19th and 20th centuries, Socialism and Communism were purported to be sciences that could make predictions about the future. The Soviet Union eventually succeeding in achieving Communism was claimed to be a scientific inevitability. I think the "end stage capitalism" hearkens back to this kind of rhetoric because it purports to predict the future of capitalism. I wouldn't take any "science of capitalism" seriously either. Anybody telling you their political or economic ideology is a science that can predict the future is somebody you should laugh at. No ideology can predict with anything approaching scientific precision or accuracy the complex chaotic interplay of competing nations and the impact of technology yet to be invented.