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Again, I will restate: I think you need to do a bit more reading into the history of socialism in the real world if you walked away with the idea that Marxism is “tainted by authoritarians,” and not that Marxism has worked in real life, and was demonized by capitalist society for posing an alternative in the real world. The USSR, PRC, Cuba, etc are examples of socialism working in the real world. Marxism was not "weaponized by authoritarians," capitalists have attacked and slandered existing socialist systems because they pose a viable alternative.
Marxism is not about "the people coming together." Ir's a theory of social change, and it fully acknowledges the role of revolution against the ruling classes. Marx and Engles were slandered as "authoritarians" for their views as well.
Marxism wasn't just novel, it was literally revolutionary, as in pro-revolution.