You’re right, of course.
But it didn’t originate with Karl Marx. It was Adam Weishaupt who got it started.
https://darktruth.fandom.com/wiki/Adam_Weishaupt
http://www.illuminati-news.com/adam-weishaupt.htm
Both articles are interesting, and from what I gathered on other sites, communism/socialism has been around since the time of Pliny, in one form or another, but never really went anywhere.
When God gets fed up with the shenanigans of His children, He will send his Son to clean house, once and for all. Until then, all we can do is pray like it’s all up to God and work like it’s all up to us.
Dint know mousies wuz dat big.
It also gets an honorable mention in the book of Acts.