Funny, because Venezuela, Russia, North Korea, Cuba etc are not beacons of equality.
Regulated free market countries empirically have more equality.
Regulated free market countries empirically have more equality.
Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis and it true that Marx and Engels writing offered scientific/philosophic background for revolutions (which ended up worse than capitalism). But their critique of capitalism is still very much valid.
If you want be successful capitalist you need read "Das Capital": many things will become clear. Or just watch it: http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/