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IS that your answer to everything? "WAAH THAT'S JUST YOUR OPINION, YOU'RE BEING SUBJECTIVE".
If differences are too small to judge objectively, then you can call it subjective. But there is a pretty big difference between a country with institutional total control over the media and a country with an extensive and free press. The dictatorship of the proletariat is supposed to have complete control over everything to suppress evil capitalists, but this just places too much power in the hands of a few humans. No matter how righteous you think a person is, they always suprise you when given power without criticism and personal consequence.
Democracy doesn't prevent imperialism from happenning everywhere all the time, but it does allow people in a country to criticise their leader's foreign policy, which is more than can be said for tyranny. If you are so eager to stop imperialism why do you support a dictatorship? Communism's version of imperialism is naziesque occupation, which is one standard deviation more evil than allying with a tyrant or selling weapons to guerillas.
As for Marx I have a little rule... There are 10000s of books out there and only one life time to put my attention to them, learn something and put that knowledge to good use. Thus whenever I am reading something and come across something profoundly stupid without even a single hint that I should stay with the author and read further to understand the point in it's entirety, I just stop reading. There is no point in wasting my time. If the author cannot recognise legitimate doubts in his reader's mind then he must be an extremist.
Maybe one day I will come across a book by a social democrat which has some rational practical means to make the world a better place who is not afraid of self-criticism unlike every other socialist/communist/anarchist ranting paranoid extremist.