Marx's communist ideology was more optimistic than pragmatic. His vision of communism was never implemented in the way he had imagined it to be. The 'communist' regimes of Stalin and Lenin highly exploited and repressed the very class that was supposed to rule of the state: the proletariat or the working class.
His idea of the 'dictatorship of the proletariat' was highly unlikely and almost impossible to achieve. This was based on the assumption that the elite or upper class would be willing to let that happen. With the idea of communism on the rise, the elite class would definitely feel even more determined to not let that happen and remain the most influential and powerful class in the state. For the working class to effectively 'overthrow' the shackles of class division, they would have to rebel against the upper echelons of society which was quite unlikely to be successful. This is because the proletariat did not possess the organization skills, monetary means or patience to rule a state.
Communism may have seemed to be a popular ideology especially in countries that possessed a large workforce. The problem arose in implementing the ideology and when it came to this, one realised that the largest force in society was not the largest class, but the one with the means to keep themselves in their dominant position in society.
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