It's clear from recent proposals regarding increasing taxes on the rich coming from members and representatives of the ruling One Percent that they are clearly as worried as Soros is about the threats to their rule and their beloved system of capitalism.
Soros goes on to compare the current state of the western world with what the Soviet Union was facing as communism crumbled. Although he would think that history would have taught the globe a thing or two about noticing trends, Soros says that, despite past events providing a perfect example of what is to come, the end of an empire seems imminent. [my emphasis]
“The collapse of the Soviet system was a pretty extraordinary event, and we are currently experiencing something similar in the developed world, without fully realizing what’s happening,” adds Soros.