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That's not true. The violent revolution idea worked very well. It's just that what happened after that revolution didn't quite match Marx's expectations.
Well if you ignore all the predictions for what should happen afterwards, the mere idea that it's possible to have a violent revolution that would topple an old authoritarian regime wasn't exactly original to Marx.
The thing that was original to Marx was that a revolution is the only way to create real political change and that it's impossible to create that change inside the system.
I find it hard to believe this was an original idea. In a classic autocracy with a small rich legally empowered class, how could you possibly expect to radically change things except through violence? What alternatives are there that were ignored by all the previous violent revolutions in history?
The idea is that even representative democracies creating radical change within the system is impossible.
Great Britain is still a Monarchy in 2014, but I would say they changed a great deal without a violent revolution.