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Lenin ordered the hanging of 100 property owners at the very start of the Revolution, saying people needed to see the deaths of “landlords, rich men, bloodsuckers.” Mass murder and starvation rapidly increased the death toll after that. It wasn’t exactly what philosopher Karl Marx had in mind …

It wasn’t? When one reads Marx’s writings, one sees that it is exactly what he had in mind.

Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionizing the mode of production. …

Marx had zero understanding of human nature. Somehow the “proletariat” was more noble than any preceding version of humanity, and once they attained dictatorial power and centralized everything, they would suddenly discover no more need for their dictatorship, convert their deadly weapons into plowshares, and live in a world with no families, no private property, no national borders and no religion, and sodomy and transgenderism for all.

Even WORSE, there's evidence from his own writings to suggest that Karl Marx when creating the ideology with Engels specifically had in mind as their model Robespierre's France. In particular:
"Once we are at the helm, we shall be obliged to reenact the year 1793…When our time comes, we shall not conceal terrorism with hypocritical phrases. . . The vengeance of the people will break forth with such ferocity that not even the year 1793 enables us to envisage it."
Source: Marx-Engels Gesamt-Ausgabe, vol. vi pp 503-505, final issue of Neue Rheinische Zeitung, May 18, 1849. Quoted in Thomas G. West, Marx and Lenin, The Claremont Institute
And did I mention he advocated for Revolutionary terrorism as well?
"There is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror."
Source: Marx, Karl, “The Victory of the Counterrevolution in Vienna”, Neue Rheinische Zeitung, November 1848.