In your view, there does not seem to be room for empathy and may not be room for sympathy.

You do not understand universalism because you insist on an identitarian lens. That may be why you misunderstand Marx, who was not antisemitic. He was an atheist who did not like any religions, including Judaism.

Your reading of Animal Farm is similarly shallow--Orwell was criticizing the authoritarian approach of Stalin. Boxer represents the people duped by him. If you want to know Orwell's opinion of Marx, look at Old Major, who dies before his dream is perverted and the capitalists take back control.