My point is Marx theorised his philosophy in the mid 19th century, Britain has been an industrialised country since the early 19th century, France and Germany a bit later on. The only nation that had a little wobble was Germany and that was not as Marx predicted because of an economic boom/bust cycle but because of a ruinous war and even then the Communists were only a minority amongst far right supporters, monarchists, liberals and a whole bunch of other factions. The fact is none of those countries has gone Communist in the 150-200 yrs they have been functioning industrial nations. The few countries that have gone Communist failed massively and nearly all have returned to the market, aside from a few outremers like Laos and Cuba (which is implementing market based reforms).
The evidence of nearly 200 years of industrial development makes a mockery of Marx's dialectic, history is not trending towards a Communist society. Even nations which have embraced forms of socialism such as the Scandanavian countries show no desire to ever go communist and some such as Denmark and Norway were actively hostile to it.
To keep suggesting that a socialist nation has never been created is a strawman because it's ignoring the point that I keep making that Marx's dialectic view of history has fallen flat on it's face. Instead you guys just keep trotting out the same excuse...'Socialism has never been perfected' without analysing why it's never been adopted by an industrialised nation and why it's fallen flat on it's face everywhere it's been tried. It's a ridiculous stance to make.
I could easily say that the entire world's culture and technology was originally seeded by aliens and that one day they'll return but I don't know when. Then I could keep refuting your arguments against it by saying that just because the aliens havn't returned yet, doesn't mean they won't. Sounds utterly stupid but it's working on exactly the same logic as your nonsensical view of Communism. It's time you grew up and accepted the world as it is rather than wishy washy utopian ideals, the great experiment with Communism is over. No empirical evidence exists to support Marx's ideas on history.
Also I think it's a bit odd that in a thread entitled 'Leftism in the USA' there is not one mention of the Progressive Era which genuinely did have elements of left wing politics rather than your highly disputed theories on things like the Puritans.