It's not whether they succeeded, they simply didn't happen where he thought they would, the way he thought they would nor developed the way he thought they woul

It's not whether they succeeded, they simply didn't happen where he thought they would, the way he thought they would nor developed the way he thought they would. This was a real, well-recorded problem - after all, his work aspired to be a scientific theory, if the theory predicts things but they don't happen, you have a problem. Dealing with this problem is a pretty big part of the development Marxism, it's simply inaccurate to say nobody thought he wasn't prescient. Marxists had to account for his non-prescience and went at it with great energy. Here's one historical example of many: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_in_one_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_in_one_country