I mostly agree with this, Hugh, and I thank you for saying it. Since I speak as a Classical Marxist myself, i.e., a follower of the Economic Democracy that Marx and Engels actually endorsed as opposed to all the other tendencies that bastardized it during the 20th century to the present, the SJWs being the latest nitwits to do this. Marx was most certainly not the equivalent of a modern liberal for his time period, but firmly on the side of the working class. As for worker controlled states, Marx and Engels envisioned a stateless economy where workers controlled the system via social ownership of all the industries, which as you noted are now the actual power firmly in control of all nations, the state apparatus being their pawn and enforcer. But I do understand what you meant by a "worker-controlled state," as too many people on the Left who support the Chinese government claim that they established this (which is ridiculous and very blatantly not the truth) as an ingenious excuse to allege that if you oppose the Chinese government then you effectively attack all the Chinese people. Sort of similar to the way Israel promotes Zionism as somehow representing the interests of all Jewish people so that opposition to this ethno-centric, apartheid form of identity politics can be painted as antisemitism. Pundits have made an art form out of cloaking their autocratic and regressive tendencies behind "progressive" sounding monikers to gain support and fend off criticisms. If the former Soviets, SJWs, and Zionists haven't taught us this important lesson yet, then we all need to take classes in Politics 101.