Marx had some admirable ideas. He was living in a time where the rich were exploiting the poor working class in a manner far worse than nearly any other time in history. So he envisioned an ideal world where people working to produce food and necessities didn’t have to be poor and classes in general could be fully eliminated. Unfortunately there were many consequences, both forseen and unforseen. Marx and Engels were products of the 19th century Enlightenment movement which (I shouldn’t have to tell you) absolutely hated Yiddishekeit (and culture and religion and ethnicities) with a passion. Marx wanted not only to abolish Torah and Avodah, but also the whole concept of the Bnei Yisroel, taking things even further than Haskalah wanted. It’s no wonder the early Tzionim loved him so much. The unforseen consequences is that “Das Kapital” and “The Communist Manifesto” were far too ideal and assumed the absolute best in people, which allowed evil doers to continuously take advantage of Communism and steer it towards being one of the most terrible forms of government imaginable.
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