It's funny to see liberals/libertarians occasionally do to Marx what Lenin talked about in the first paragraph of State and Revolution. They're still doing it. They're defanging him and trying to make him this well-meaning doofus who just didn't understand what he was saying, didn't know what would happen with his works. He just wanted to write philosophy and have a utopia where people shared? Except, no, like you said Marx was a revolutionary. He was intimately involved with the First International, he was helping organize local revolutionary cadres and labor unions, he was writing policy outlines for communist parties throughout Europe. The guy meant what he wrote. The Communist Manifesto was written somewhat in response to the Paris revolts of 1848, a revolt which Marx believed didn't go far enough. He criticized the revolutionaries for failing to capture the state, which eventually neutered them.
He wasn't just some naive utopian, Marx knew exactly what was gonna happen in a socialist revolution
It's funny to see liberals/libertarians occasionally do to Marx what Lenin talked about in the first paragraph of State and Revolution. They're still doing it. They're defanging him and trying to make him this well-meaning doofus who just didn't understand what he was saying, didn't know what would happen with his works. He just wanted to write philosophy and have a utopia where people shared? Except, no, like you said Marx was a revolutionary. He was intimately involved with the First International, he was helping organize local revolutionary cadres and labor unions, he was writing policy outlines for communist parties throughout Europe. The guy meant what he wrote. The Communist Manifesto was written somewhat in response to the Paris revolts of 1848, a revolt which Marx believed didn't go far enough. He criticized the revolutionaries for failing to capture the state, which eventually neutered them.
He wasn't just some naive utopian, Marx knew exactly what was gonna happen in a socialist revolution