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It is not quite a difference of time, but something that has to be dealt with is that Marx's idea of Revolution hasn't panned out. Instead of the most advanced capitalist economies that had revolutions, it was the semi-periphery (Russia, China, then later decolonializing nations.)
This does tie into qualitative differences from Marx's predictions because both factory workers or highly concentrated proletariat who could easily be organized didn't continue increasing until they were an overwhelming majority. Even though the majority of the population was proletarianized, factory work topped off at 20-30% in most capitalist nations. This was the only point where dialectics was kind of ignored, there would be an antithesis, or saturation, rather than the current trends continuing until all firms consolidating and everyone working in a small handful of factories. The transition to service and logistics work starts much earlier in the process of industrialization.
This along with the extreme atomization of capitalism going almost a century longer than Marx expected is likely why the proletariat is so inert.