Is Marx one of the 10 Greatest Philosophers of all time?

My Answer......To put Marx into the Top Ten we would have to knock off ten of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, Hume, Locke, Rousseau, Smith, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, JS Mill, Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Freud in the Western canon let alone Confucius, Lao Tzu, Buddha in other philosophies (to name a few). Considering that his philosophy is largely a derivative of Hegel’s suffused with the writings of Proudhon, Saint-Simon, Fourier I would argue that top ten is way too generous. Top twenty perhaps but only with a push. Granted his thinking has had a real world impact but more often then not this has come at the detriment of humanity when transformed into practice. In addition his economic ideas around Labour have been shown wanting while his poor grasp of market dynamics were obliterated by Hayek et al. I suspect that his status as a great thinker is more a consequence of his popularity in the revolutionary context as well as the affection he seems to ignite from those who have inherited the Gramscian mantle and all too often dominate schools of philosophies on many a university campus.