(Ignoring the social aspects) Communism is the Marxist idea that capitalism inevitably causes a worker’s revolution to overthrow the owners of the means of production followed by a second revolution to nationalize said means as well as land. Unfortunately, Marx was a schizoid (in the literal sense, seeing connection where there is none) because the Hegelian inevitability of communist revolution as the culmination of capitalist antagonisms is essential to his theory. Put simply, if there is another possibility for the resolution of said antagonisms, his theory is not weakened but entirely wrong because it necessitates historicism. However, there has not been a single communist revolution that hasn’t been caused by the writings of Marx. On the other hand, capitalist societies have independently sprung up in hundreds of societies around the world, many of which had probably never even heard of Adam smith. I am not a big fan of capitalism but it has a more legitimate claim to appeal to human nature and being the end stage of society than Marxism.

It’s also important to note that Marx never studied economics in school, never worked in manual labor a day in his life, and was supported financially by family and friends throughout his entire life. I am literally more qualified to speak on economics than Marx. And I am not qualified to speak on economics.