Except we saw that did not happen on its own and the colonial relationship and extraction of value is still ongoing. The western empire still rules the world. Marx initially thought it would be possible for England to have a revolution during his life and then later came to the conclusion it would be impossible without first a break in the colonial imperialist relationship.
Thus it is not the first task for a communist party in a core nation to implement a communist revolution. The first task is to break their own empire and stand in solidarity with those outside of it fighting against it through revolutionary defeatism. Only then is it possible to have a communist revolution.
Appears it was actually Engels in a letter to Marx, but the two were much in agreement on this topic.
The business with Jones [3] is very disgusting. He has held a meeting here and spoken entirely along the lines of the new alliance. After this affair one is really almost driven to believe that the English proletarian movement in its old traditional Chartist form must perish completely before it can develop in a new, viable form. And yet one cannot foresee what this new form will look like. For the rest, it seems to me that Jones’s new move, taken in conjunction with the former more or less successful attempts at such an alliance, is really bound up with the fact that the English proletariat is actually becoming more and more bourgeois, so that this most bourgeois of all nations is apparently aiming ultimately at the possession of a bourgeois aristocracy and a bourgeois proletariat alongside the bourgeoisie. For a nation which exploits the whole world this is of course to a certain extent justifiable. The only thing that would help here would be a few thoroughly bad years, but since the gold discoveries these no longer seem so easy to come by
Except we saw that did not happen on its own and the colonial relationship and extraction of value is still ongoing. The western empire still rules the world. Marx initially thought it would be possible for England to have a revolution during his life and then later came to the conclusion it would be impossible without first a break in the colonial imperialist relationship.
Thus it is not the first task for a communist party in a core nation to implement a communist revolution. The first task is to break their own empire and stand in solidarity with those outside of it fighting against it through revolutionary defeatism. Only then is it possible to have a communist revolution.
I'm curious about the Marx break quote you've brought up a couple of times. What are you referring to?
Appears it was actually Engels in a letter to Marx, but the two were much in agreement on this topic.
https://snylterstaten.dk/letter-from-engels-to-marx-manchester-7th-october-1858/