Reading Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism and this section caught my attention. He literally outlines a war between America and Japan in conjunction with national wars (as in wars against imperialism/hegemony, in our history this was resistance to Nazism in Europe) in Europe that delays the onset of socialism for decades.

He claims this is improbable, but he laid out it nonetheless. The predictive power of Marxism y'all; its wild to see it in action.

From today's standpoint, the last lines about how history can take giant leaps backward before advancing is surprisingly :bloomer: We've been unfortunate enough to live in a leap backward but that will change.