Marx and Engels are working their way to the top of my reading list. Not because I'm getting through a bunch of books, because I'm fucking in government housing and dealing with a bunch of bureaucracy set up by rich white people who think government can't work so they try to break it. I've always been very liberal but navigating poverty while the GOP does everything it can to fuck poor people in an effort to fuck brown people and remain the ruling class is making me reconsider communism. I like my stuff and my right not to be disappeared for disagreeing with the party, I'm American, but Russia and China went from backwards shitholes to world powers pretty quickly so there's an argument to be made that Marx had some good ideas that could be implemented into existing governments without the deaths of millions if you know what you're doing going into the thing.