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06/14/2004 Archived Entry: "1967: Robert Silverberg's Hawkbill Station"

"Which group did you say you were with?"
"The People's Crusade for Liberty."
"I don't know it. One of the newer groups?"
"Less than five years old. It started in California."
"What's its program?"
"Oh, the usual," Hahn said. "Free elections, representative government, an opening of the security files, restoration of civil liberties."
"And the economic orientation? Pure Marxist or one of the offshoots?"
"Not really any, I guess. We believed in a kind of--well, capitalism with some government restraints."
"A little to the right of state socialism, and a little to the left of laissez-faire?" Barrett suggested.
"Something like that."
"But that system was tried and failed, wasn't it? It had its day. It led inevitably to total socialism, which produced the compensating backlash of syndicalist capitalism, and then we got a government that pretended to be libertarian while actually stifling all individual liberties in the name of freedom."

Sci-fi authors' predictions are scarily cool.