Marx was a loser/moocher who lived only on the handouts of others. Why his cracked philosophy has become so widespread is a testament to the basic stupidity of too many human beings.
Marx appeals to looter/moocher mentalities. People who want to live well without having to work. Which is the basic definition of a criminal.
To achieve his goal, Marx required two things: First, the total annihilation of all opposition, the downfall of all existing governments, all economies and all societies. “Then,” he wrote, “I shall stride through the wreckage a creator!”Since you mention that the kind of man Marx was, and that the types of human beings who are most susceptible to his way of thinking fit the basic definition of criminals, I figured that the passage from the book that listed the 45 communist goals for the USA was apropos for this thread.
The second thing he needed was a new kind of human being.
He visualized a regimented breed of Pavlovian men whose minds could be triggered into immediate action by signals from their masters. He wanted a race of men who would no longer depend upon free will, ethics, morals or conscience for guidance. Perhaps, without quite realizing it, Marx was setting out to create a race of human beings conditioned to think like criminals.
Producing such a race had been the dream of power-hungry men for more than 4,000 years. Nimrod had projected the design, Plato polished it, Saint-Simon sublimated it — now Marx materialized it.
Today, this breed of criminally-conditioned man walks the earth in sufficient numbers to conquer countries or continents, to change laws and boundaries, to decree war or peace. …
— The Naked Communist, Introduction, “The Rise of the Marxist Man”