Capitalist Karl.

The irony about Marx is that his greatest achievement as a social scientist - an incisive and generally accurate analysis of ninbeteenth-century capitalist society - has been largely forgotten while his greatest error - predicting its demise in the revolutionary creation of an idealised Socialist society - has survived him. Without his Socialist beliefs, Marx might well be remembered as a leading sociologist of his era and a great mind of European economic theory.
 
Very likely, IMHO.

Marx was a "progressive" and Capitalism was considered progressive in his time. The trick is to get him to see how Capitalism could be good for most people in the long run. Marx can instead syncretize "Prussianism" (the philosophy of Hegel) and Liberalism creating a sort of proto-Social Democracy with a strong state.

Socialism/Communism would be less "intellectualized" and is seen (maybe rightfully) as crude class envy, and hence never penetrates the intelectual sphere.
 
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