I’m reading more of Engels’ “Principles of Communism”, and the guy was just deluded. He actually thought that everyone could become an expert on everything just by universal education and universal expansion of automation. Fact is, the farmer cannot become an engineer or vice versa. Marx and Engels utterly lacked a basic understanding of humanity and rejected any aspect of it that they observed.
Grand plans indeed. The CPC does think like them, and it shows.
The Soviets always had another five year plan!!!