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> any of Marx's writings show his concern (however misguided you believe it to be)> was for liberty, for freedom. 

>From Marx's "Communist Manifesto":"By this, the long-wished for opportunity was offered to "True" Socialism ofconfronting the political movement with the socialistic demands, of hurling thetraditional anathemas against liberalism, against representative government,against bourgeois competition, bourgeois freedom of the press, bourgeoislegislation, bourgeois liberty and equality, and of preaching to the masses thatthey had nothing to gain, and everything to lose, by this bourgeois movement.It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberlessindefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- Free Trade.
We Communists have been reproached with the desire of abolishing the right of personallyacquiring property as the fruit of a man's own labor, which property is alleged to be thegroundwork of all personal freedom, activity and independence. 
And the abolition of this state of things is called by the bourgeois, abolition ofindividuality and freedom! And rightly so. The abolition of bourgeois individuality, bourgeoisindependence, and bourgeois freedom is undoubtedly aimed at. But don't wrangle with us so long as you apply, to our intended abolition of bourgeois property,the standard of your bourgeois notions of freedom, culture, law, etc."In short, Marx is "concerned" with freedom in the same sense Hitler was concerned with theJewish population.  He wanted to eliminate it.Craig