I feel a very misinterpreted man.
I also feel there is a certain taboo to his ideology which is damadging to its members... Not merely in a way that we see how western media refuses to tolerate anything of the extreme left, but also from the members themselves.
Its gained such a taboo that many feel compelled to call themselves marxists, not read the communist mannifesto and are overly zealous about the movement. For an ideology around liberation, too many feel they have to follow it directly to the letter.
Marx never did express the exact economics of a socialist system, but what he beleived would be ideals of it. Yet somehow plenty of theoreticians since have created a new orthodoxy such as lenin which has horribly morphed his ideas.