Marx and Bakunin.

 

The Russian anarchist Michael Bakunin, knew both Marx and Engels. He credited Marx with being a brilliant intellectual but a "privileged authoritarian." He also regarded Marx as an egotistical leader and predicted that Marxist rule would lead to a "red bureaucracy" and a "new privileged class" and that is what certainly happened in Bolshevik Russia. 

Bakunin thought Marx democratically inclined but, in a letter, he described him as a "bourgeois, subversive, exploitative" personality that relied on "political slander, lies and intrigue," and Bakunin was often on the receiving end of it. Both Marx and Engels accused Bakunin of being a Russian agent or Tsarist spy. 

While Marx wrote about "rural idiocy" Bakunin thought that the peasantry in countries like Russia, Italy and Spain, could play a divisive role in the social revolution. 

Other socialist' leaders like Rosa Luxembourg and Alexander Herzen, were sceptical about the Marxist worker's state. Rosa Luxembourg predicted a form of Stalinist rule and Herzen thought communism was just Tsarism turned upside down.