Here we go over some of the predictions of the future that we followers of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao got right and the countless that our critics have gotten wrong. Many were published by the "Foreign Languages Press" of the Communist Party of China when Mao was in power in China 1949 to 1976.

Current Events

• MIM before Abu Ghraib: Amerikans WOULD torture prisoners (2004)

Fascism and tendencies to fascism

• Stalin: Capitalist countries letting individual rights go extinct (1952)

Fighting Capitalist Restoration

• Mao warns against "peaceful evolution" restoration of capitalism (1964)
• Red Guard flyer of 1967 on "Adverse Current" predicted who would restore capitalism in China
• Red Guard transcript of 1968 named future power-holders to restore capitalism and implement Tiananmen massacre

Nations, Nationalism, and National Liberation

• Lenin starts pointing East (1921-3)
• Molotov on Yugoslavia (1970s)

Oppressor Nation Working Class

• Lenin predicts imperialist countries' labor movements' future (1916)
• V.G. Wilcox on the social-democratic future of revisionists (1964)

Results of Capitalist Restoration

• Yao Wenyuan ("Gang of Four") predicts corruption, open capitalism (1975)
• Henry Park predicts return of business cycle to the Soviet Union (1987)

World War

• Stalin predicts capitalism will be hurt worse by upcoming World War II than by World War I (1926)
• Stalin predicts Nazi invasion in 10 years (1931)
• Stalin predicts defeat of aggressors and multiple revolutions in World War II (1934)

. . . and they goofed it

World War

• Trotsky says Stalin won't Sovietize Germany: German workers will rise in revolution (1939)
• Trotsky says Nazi armies will feel sympathy for occupied civilians, become revolutionary (1940)

War, militarism generally

• Nixon said major powers would not initiate any more conventional wars (1990)

Nations, Nationalism, and National Liberation

• Trotsky says the revolutionary center of gravity is moving West (1919)
• Trotsky says the revolutionary center of gravity is in the West (1933)
• Trotsky says Europe will liberate colonies peacefully (1940)

Capitalist Restoration

• Trotsky says capitalist restoration cannot be "peaceful evolution" (to speak of the successful State Department phrase/strategy) (1933)
• Ernest Mandel says political revolution coming in USSR (1978)
• Trotskyist Spartacist League said for decades that "bloody civil war" necessary for capitalist restoration before changing minds
• Enver Hoxha says "no force" exists to make the party deviate (1979)
• Communist Labor Party says capitalist restoration "impossible" in USSR (1977)
• Line of March says thousands of corpses on TV necessary for Soviet restoration of capitalism (1980)
• Jerry Tung of Communist Workers Party says socialism stable in Soviet Union, criticizes "Gang of Four" (1981)
• Castro expresses confidence in Gorbachev; says not to worry about multiparty democracy coming to the Soviet Union (1988)

Class structure and revolution

• Anarchist Michael Bakunin sees anarchism surpassing Marxism in Germany (1867-72)
• Anarchist Alexander Berkman says Western labor movement won't be bought off (1928)