If it wasn't clear from your earlier comments it is now that if you have read any Marx you didn't understand it.

> Marx himself mostly hated local socialists (they wanted practical stuff and found him ridiculous).

HAH! That is the complete opposite:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/05/parti-ou...

'Accusing Guesde and Lafargue of “revolutionary phrase-mongering” and of denying the value of reformist struggles, Marx made his famous remark that, if their politics represented Marxism, “ce qu'il y a de certain c'est que moi, je ne suis pas Marxiste” (“what is certain is that I myself am not a Marxist”).'