A. Royden D'souza

The Red Terror was a campaign of systematic political repression, mass arrests, and executions carried out by the Bolshevik government after the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Marx had emphasized the self-emancipation of the working class. Lenin emphasized the leadership of a revolutionary organization acting for the working class.

The roots of communism don't start with Karl Marx. They go back to Moses Hess (1812–1875), a German philosopher and socialist whose ideas played a critical role in the early development of communist thought.