I don't think you've understood my comment. I didn't say my political opinions were better or more neutral. I criticized the term for making predictions about

I don't think you've understood my comment. I didn't say my political opinions were better or more neutral. I criticized the term for making predictions about the future into an assumption about present reality. We can't call the present time "late stage capitalism" because we don't know what will happen in the future. It's a criticism of fortune-telling, not of a particular political stance. "Late" is a descriptor of past events, not of future ones. The Late Roman Empire already happened. We are looking back on it. We can't do that with capitalism, because we are still in the midst of it.