What would Karl Marx have thought about the Soviet Union?

While Lenin and Marx maybe could agree on many issues I very much doubt that Marx would recognise the Soviet Union as a socialist state. The Soviet Union had the problems that Marx was against. In the Soviet Union a small group of people owned all of the means of production while the rest were exploited working class with zero influence. read more

According to Gudkov, in 1989, 35 percent of Russians thought of Marx as one of the top 10 greatest people to have lived. By the end of 1991 after the Soviet Union fell, only 8 percent did. Since 2008, the number has flatlined at three percent. read more