The right-wing of the old German social democracy supported even German colonialist expansion and war using a Marxist sounding argument that it would foster the development of capitalism and thus its eventual decline. Similar reasoning led Karl Marx to support the colonial policies of Great Britain
https://libcom.org/article/historical-materialism-anti-revolutionary-theory-revolution
What happens when on the one hand the working class guarantees the revolution by its very existence and yet on the other hand this inherent mission requires instructions and education by the communist party?
“England has to fulfil a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia.”
Karl Marx, The Future Results of British Rule in India, 1853, MECW Volume 12, pp. 217, see http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1853/07/22.htm.
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