You have obviously never been around Marxists. I had to read Marx. The Democrat leaders would like you to worry that they might be Marxists. A grifter gets you to look somewhere else while he’s picking your pocket. They’re getting you to think about socialism while they’re just picking your pocket.
I read and stuided the CM. I know the left well. One has to be a fool to believe the followers are Marx want the "ideal state." Marx, Obama, Stalin, most of the RAT party are control freaks. They want to use the power of the State for absolute control. The old school has such power they could easily fill the evil blood lust and kill millions.
One of the benefits of such control is lots of "easy money." You could call Stalin a grifter of sorts -- he has nice Dachas in Abkhazia, Gagra and other places in the Caucuses.
I have no doubt there are many on the left who fantasize about having the same power as Stalin. The evil in their hearts is no less than the evil in Stalin's, Mao or Pol Pot.
Obama, Ayers, Soros, most on the left seek power not just for easy money. They are out to transform our Republic into a Socialist H*ll. Their end game is dictatorship.