Iurii Andropov, The Doctrine of Karl Marx and Certain Questions of Socialist Construction in the USSR. February 1983
Original Source: Kommunist, No. 3 (February 1983), pp. 9-13, 15-20, 22-23.
A hundred years have gone by since the day when a man named Karl Marx departed this life. A whole century. A century of dramatic upheavals, revolutionary storms, radical changes in the fate of mankind. A century that upset and shattered a multitude of philosophical concepts, social theories, political doctrines. And a century of victories of Marxism, one after another, and its growing impact on the development of society …
It fell to the lot of the proletariat of Russia to be tile revolutionary trailblazer. Even in our time there are “critics” of the October Revolution who assert that somehow it came about contrary to all the wishes of Marx. They take the view that in his revolutionary forecasts Marx generally did not take Russia into account. But actually he showed a tremendous interest in Russian matters. In order to analyze them better, Marx studied the Russian language. An irreconcilable opponent of tsarism, he prophetically appraised the prospects of the social movement growing in Russia and saw that a “tremendous social revolution” (see K. Marx and F. Engels, Works, vol. 32, p. 549) was brewing there that would have worldwide significance …