I’d be careful with that position. For all I know you are a stout supporter of Israel, don’t have an anti-Semitic bone in your body, and may even, yourself be a Jew. But in most discourse which asserts that bankers were behind Marx and “launched communism” as you put it, “bankers” is code for “Jews”.
I think the old beardy-wierdy actually believed his own claptrap. His critique of capitalism had a certain plausibility back in the 1840’s and 1850’s that is lost when democratic polities (whether republican or constitutional-monarchical in form) begin mild regulation of business and legalized union activity, then lost completely when attempts to implement his ideas turned into bloodbaths and stock-options, pension plans, union bail-outs of companies and the like resulted in “workers” owning the “means of production” in the context of a capitalist economy.
Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution
How western capitalists funded Lenin, the Bolsheviks, and the Soviet Union
— by Antony C. Sutton, 1974
http://www.modernhistoryproject.org/mhp/ArticleDisplay.php?Article=BolshevikRev