Karl Marx: 10 great quotes on his birthday

[Bjorn Against]

87. Alright, I suppose I can accept some similarities with Lenin as far as ideology goes

The rest of them however are absurd comparisions, especially the Hitler comparision. If Marx had still been alive when Hitler took power he would have been one of the first to be killed. Lenin was the only person among that group who I think truly believed in the principles of Marx although Marx would have had issues with his version of Marxism, Stalin and Mao used Marxist rhetoric to sell themselves to the public but were really more concerned about their own power than anything else and did not practice the Marxist principles they preached, Hitler hated Marxists and they were among the very first people he had killed in the concentration camps.

Any post that compares Marx to dictators immediately raises red flags for me however because Marx was not a dictator nor did he work for any dictators. Anyone who tries to associate him with dictators clearly just listens to propaganda and has no clue who Marx actually was, he was an economist not a tyrant.