I agree. Marx was a 'good journalist' but he didn't know squat about economics or human nature. He saw problems and devised simplistic solutions based emotion and complete ignorance of the dynamics that created those problems. The shame was that he was such a good writer that some people thought he knew what he was talking about.
Actually Marx was a terrible writer! I think the issue is that people simply read what they wanted to read into his muddle. I suppose there is some value in the idea of a beauracratic tiered factory where the worker becomes 'alientated' from his work. The origin of the modern cubicle bound drones. but Marx's solution was to extend those conditions to everyone....create the equivalent of a Corporate slave state.