Of course he was. So was Lenin. That didn't stop the perfectly awful consequences.
Karl Marx is the name,
And oppression is my game.
It's been proved time and again,
From Stalin's gulags to Phnom Penh,
From Berlin's wall to grim Pyongyang,
Even an orangutan
Can see the heinous crimes of shame
Done for my cause and in my name.
Karl Marx is the name,
And oppression is my game.