Lenin copied Marx’s idea of central control.

Moreover, Lenin’s chief amendment to Marxism–“the vanguard party”–finds good intellectual warrant in the Founder himself. …there exists a deep connection between Marx’s idea of Communism as conscious, rational mastery over mankind’s collective fate and Lenin’s idea of the Party as the controlling vanguard of the spontaneous mass movement. Signet Classics edition of The Communist Manifesto, …

Karl Marx favored big industrial companies over “petty” artisans and “small” peasants.

Hard-won, self-acquired, self-earned property! Do you mean the property of the petty artisan and the small peasant, a form of property that preceded the bourgeois form? There is no need to abolish that; the development of industry has to a great extent already destroyed it, and is still destroying it daily. Signet Classics edition of …

Did Karl Marx want nations abolished, or not? You decide. He couldn’t!

Karl Marx argued in The Communist Manifesto for the abolition of all nations: The Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality. The working men have no country. We cannot take from them what they have not got. Signet Classics edition of The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, with …

Karl Marx was a snowflake.

As Ben Shapiro popularized, a “snowflake” is someone who melts when confronted with an opinion or fact that is inconsistent with his or her worldview. Karl Marx was a snowflake. For proof, look at how he refused in The Communist Manifesto to respond to charges against communism from three standpoints: The charges against communism made …

Karl Marx did not understand human nature.

If the proletariat during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of circumstances, to organise itself as a class; if, by means of a revolution, it makes itself the ruling class, and, as such, sweeps away by force the old conditions of production, then it will, along with these conditions, have swept …