On the note of Communism, Paul Johnson makes the interesting argument that the obsession with the money-obsessed Capitalist by Marx is really just a metastasized anti-Semitism, and the abuse of groups of people based on collective crimes by Lenin and those who followed him–such as efforts to destroy Kulaks, and the bourgeoisie generally–were morphologically pogroms in a classic Russian sense. People were pulled from their homes, beaten, jailed and/or killed, and their possessions confiscated.
It is an interesting thesis.
Hate makes hate. Marx apparently asked Heine, with whom he was acquainted, “Why so much love, and not more of the lash?” Heine, for his part, lamented the grotesque violence he saw in the future of socialism, even if he was in many respects sympathetic.