Subject: Re: This says it all
Incorrect. Marxist philosophy relies on NO control. It's a "dictatorship of the proletariat". No one is in charge, so there is no "top-down".

You may be thinking of state socialism, similar to what the USSR had, and China (until they made their "communist compromise with capitalism"). That is NOT Marxism.

Though Marxism also isn't good, but for very different reasons than fascism or state socialism.