Is there any indication that Marx would have been a despot in the same vain as Lenin or Stalin?

by UnicycleMafia

Is there any clear indication from Marx's writing that if he were to be the leader of a communist revolt would he be dictator in the same vain as Lenin or Stalin

Reason's why I ask this question:

Mikhail Bakunin accused Marx of being a "Closet Authoritarian"

It's still (somewhat) debatable that Marx was a revolutionary

Almost like religion, Marx's works laid the foundation for terrible atrocities.

Marx grew up and lived in privilege, never really experience the plight of the proletariat

Is it safe to assume that Marx's ideology wouldn't have been perverted by others and just perverted by the man himself?

Comrade-Chernov

It was Marx and Engels who originally called for the "dictatorship of the proletariat" and an "authoritarian" system to repress the bourgeoisie, counter-revolutionaries, etc, if that answers your question. Lenin and Stalin did not add anything that Marx didn't talk about. Marx provided the theory, Lenin and Stalin provided the implementation. Whether they were despots or not is another matter, but that's not relevant.

Marx and Engels wrote on this in Critique of the Gotha Programme and On Authority respectively.