@MaryJane He had some good ideas. Some things about his manifesto were good. He was a horrible racist and a although born a Jew he was a vicious antisemite. He was had no work ethic and was also a plagiarist. Much of Das Kapital was stolen from Fredrich Engels. Most of his actual writings were racist diatribes.

@MaryJane Karl Marx did a great job identifying the excesses of capitalism and how it causes great suffering. However, his proposed solution was terrible. You can't disrupt an economy with revolution and expect there to be qualified peopel ready to build a more equal economy out of the destruction.

The countries of Northern Europe, who practice democratic socialism had a better concept of gradual change to creat a mroe equal society.

@snytiger6 This is a good read to see what kind of person Karl Marx was. [intellectualtakeout.org]