He said that capitalism would sell anyone the means to destroy it, he went on to say the capitalism would grow and enslave the whole world with no hope of escape.
But then something would happen and people would rise up and destroy capitalism forever. Then the world would become the workers paradise.
Talk about getting it all wrong...
the way I see marx is: He saw the problems with capitalism. I don't think he ever thought about how far this problems can go. However.. his solution just don't work. The only way his solution would work is if all people are good. But this is not the case. Not even in marx theory itself. Simple spoken for marx the rich where the bad guys and the poor ones the good guys. So we already have bad people in his own theory. And it's the good old we vs them mentality.
For me it's clear the economy needs to be in private hands. Every person needs to have the ability to build his own business. That is freedom.
But what we see today, companies like amazon have so much power and influence. They can dictate whatever they want. That is not freedom anymore.. and tbh it's not a big difference if so much power lies in the hand of one single government or 1 single company. People like bill gates with his foundation also have way to much power and can dictate whatever they want. Also look at practices like high-frequency trading (trading stocks 1000s of times in 1 second) have absolute no realworld value.
So, we see the problem. But seeing the problem is easy. Finding a solution is the hard part. Putting the means of production in the hands of the workers is a simplified idealistic idea. Putting the economy in the hands of the government will never work well (even if the government is 100% good today, there is absolutely no reason to believe it will stay this way).
My 2ct are: More local production, less globalism. It's a lot better if he have a lot of small and medium business, then a few big and global ones.
Feel free to disagree.