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The radical left were basically people that wanted parliamentary democracy with no king which was seen as radical at the time. Not really communist in the way we see it. Reminder that the Jacobins were still libs though they were the furthest left at the time basically. Marx's whole job was deconstructing the radical left and showing it needed to go further in many social aspects.
Marx did seem to have a soft spot for Garibaldi though, generally he was a positive force
I think this guy did express some actual socialist ideas towards the end of his life. Granted I think he lived most of his life before Kapital was even published.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/iwma/documents/1871/garibaldi.htm
This is true, at the later part of his life he had a split with Mazzini who denounced the First International. His work however as a revolutionary was decidedly in favor of the then historically progressive left radicals, who were liberals fundamentally. Engels even says as much that Garibaldi played as a liberal in past times.
Mazzini could be easily described as one of the first social democrats and class collaborationists.