Although unnecessary to our understanding of the USSR’s great achievements, I still wish we could know what Marx would have thought or wrote about the Soviet Union.
“Holy shit the madlads actually did it! I was sure it was going to be either the German, French, or English proletariat first!”
No, he wouldn’t have expected anything from the English. “Further study has now convinced me that the English working class will never achieve anything.”
But he did, even more than form the others. Remember that in his time capitalism did not yet achieved the imperialism stage, and he wrote that english society and government are the least militarized and least bureocratized (he meant britain itself, not the colonies) and the country had most developed proletariat, it could maybe be even possible to do a peaceful revolution.
Of course, he was wrong, from lack of experience. Lenin later commented on that when writing abut how revolution happened not in the most developled capitalist countries in Europe, but in the least developed one, and recognized the reason as bourgeoisie bribing part of workers and creating labour aristocracy which together with inteligentsia then break the workers movement with opportunism. Which occured the earliest and strongest exactly in England.
Further proof, look at the tags for the Marx Selected Works (lower left corner):
