This article makes it sound like the author suddenly found a new light in Communism, but from the way it leads it seems like they haven't wandered to these beli

This article makes it sound like the author suddenly found a new light in Communism, but from the way it leads it seems like they haven't wandered to these beliefs any time recently. That aside, it paints it as if Marx "predicted" anything about the world today. The world when he wrote the manifesto was a much darker place than it is today. Child labor, frequent industrial accidents, etc. were very real issues at the time and that's part of the reason they are the "Workers Party". The world is not perfect today, but automation and technology have done many things to change this problem. If anything, Marx failed to predict the fact that capitalism would help the workers. There is much that can be said about the world today, but painting it as a Marxist nightmare worse than Marx's own environment is not really one of them.