Marx believed, like Hobbes and Hegel that absolute state power was de rigeur. Marx made a religion of historical determinism and material evolution in such a way that the highest good and ultimate end was to produce a global commune of happy people. Marx was the first working class economist, as classical economists support the upper classes and concetrated wealth with capital. Each school is presently equally wrong in interpretation of the intentions of Adam Smith who intended capitalism to be a tool for a governing power in production and distribution of materials rather than as a political philosophy.
Karl Marx's adaptation of Hegel's political philosophy to suit his political needs was an interesting intellectual act. The need for political reform in Europe was obvious as so many people had been historically repressed and exploited circumstantially. The ruling elites were comfortable though not as much perhaps as today's middle class. The nations of Europe had a mixed bag of government forms from monarchy to autocracy with parliamentary democracy thrown in. The industrial revolution was in full blaze in England and Germany was close behind. The people of the rural areas had been increasingly forced off the land in England and moved in to London and other industrial locations. It was an era before environmental protection laws and life was very bad for many-what was a well educated philosopher with starving children to do?
Karl Marx spent much of his life working as a professional communist writer receiving grants from various people, working in libraries and getting some financial help from his friend Engels. Marx took his German, Hegelian philosophical training and put it to political use finding a very lofty basis to create his formalized philosophy of Marxism upon. It is dubious that socialist practices needed or benefitted by the use of the Hegelian philosophy of dialectical evolution of the spirit in all things including material from a purely material basis. It was a sort of statue of liberty hand off for Marx from Hegel without Hegel's acquiescence that seemed natural enough. Let a material evolution from some unknown origin actualize in history at the high level of consciousness and business with a thesis, anti-thesis and synthesis. This philosophical basis for the evolution of forms of social organization and government is without merit, yet it did apply the fashionable philosophy of Hegel to the popular problem of finding a credible basis for communist political philosophy as natural as the divine right of Kings Explanation for monarchy's right-to-rule. In some places such as Russia monarchy continued to rule.
G.W.F. Hegel's Phenomenology of History was a template for Marx to use and enhance minus the spiritual underpinning. Instead of the spirit evolving in to self-awareness in historical civilization Karl Marx brought the concept of a rather Hegelian and Darwinian synthesis that historical forms of government advance by a dialectical material progression of A conflicting with B yielding ABC. Perhaps Marx's dialectical materialist theory might be compared to a high-energy physics lab accelerator procedure where two particles collide and fuse to create a new particle (actually don't try that at home because it's not the right sub-atomic procedure). While human inventiveness does combine ideas to yield new ideas it often isn't in such a linear progression or limited to just two ideas combining for a third.
Social change and transformations to occur in such a way that they may build upon the work of prior generations, or the stimulus of one form of government or economic power may stimulate the development of another. It is certain that repression of people creates a desire for liberation or revolution. Marx's abstract interpretation of historical forces is one form of millinarianist progression toward a particular goal. Marx believed that history would culminate in a particular communist utopia and he was quite simple-minded in that desire, understandable as it was.
History and thermodynamics are unlikely to reach a plain point of stability in the next few centuries on Earth, and the dynamics of political evolutions are not likely to establish a permanent stasis globally. The limits of human population growth on Earth, the limits of production of a material economy on the basis of non-renewable resources and so forth require innovations in government from particular, intelligent individuals that could be adapted and expanded upon by societies without regard to or concern for a particular global ruling elite.
The growth of particular democratic nations with a renewable economic infrastructure participating in trade so far ads it produces a comparative advantage for each nation is a better form for the practical reason that a global mass produced economy is incapable of generating the particular ecological and economic needs of given geographic regions. Mass productions of highways and transportation is non-conforming to the vital interests of ecosystems generally and concatenated humanity would tend to live indoors rather than outdoors transforming the world into an indoor, dysfunctional planet for life.
Karl Marx's ideas were adapted to his time but incomplete. Time has produced many political theories, yet Marxism failed in developing a logic for self-representation and dissent amongst other shortcomings. Marxism also failed to anticipate the recurrent nature of failures of civilization such as were discovered by the British historian Arnold Toynbee.