Off course it is all total shite to say that he was an idealist blah de blah etc because he was not against the present day capitalist system.

He was against a feudalist class system where the common man no matter how smart or driven had no chance to prosper or compete against the lords and princes of the ruling class.

At the time of the Russian revolution I (& you) would probably have chosen communism over the existing regime in which you were a slave and the serfs were property of the land owners.

Read some Russian literature, peasants lay starving and dying in the streets, women and children too, while the wealthy nipped off to their holiday homes in the south of France. Communism came about through a prosperous class's negligence of a basic human instinct: compassion. The emancipation of the serfs was equivalent to the ending of slavery, too little too late to stop the changes in society that were needed. Greed for money always destroys society and civilization. Nothing changes does it?