Death to Capitalism? Visitors to Marx’s Grave Balk at Fee

Th Wall Street Journal ^ | 10/25/2015 | ALISTAIR MACDONALD and ESE ERHERIENE

[Beave Meister]

HIGHGATE CEMETERY, LONDON—On a summer visit to the grave of Karl Marx, Ben Gliniecki found that he would have to pay £4, or about $6, to pay respects to the man who sounded the death knell for private property.

Mr. Gliniecki, a Marxist, said no.

“Personally, I think it is disgusting,” the 24-year-old political activist said. “There are no depths of irony, or bad taste, to which capitalists won’t sink if they think they can make money out of it.”

The charity that looks after this cemetery has long taken swipe at a different irony: Karl Marx’s decision to buy a burial plot in a private London graveyard over the then state-provided alternatives. They say their cover fee subsidizes the upkeep of a cemetery where 170,000 other people rest.

[Beave Meister]

They should move his body to Washington DC, I'm sure their are plenty there who would pay thousands of dollars to visit his grave.....and that's just our Congress.

[dsrtsage]

So do they just expect the people who maintain the grounds to do it for free?

[M1903A1]

I bet college campuses around the world would line up for that “honor”. :-P

[Jan_Sobieski]

I would pay to piss on the demon possessed Marx's grave.

See the book, "Was Marx a Satanist?", by Richard Wurmbrand

[left that other site]

Well, then, dump ‘im in the Thames, then, wot?

[vpintheak]

Of course! Marxists really have the mentality of an overindulged juvenile. It’s all what they want and no thoughtsuch about how it will happen beyond “rich” will pay.

[Migraine]

Along the lines of your post, although I had forgotten that the sumbitch was buried in England — nonetheless, I wonder if the site smells of urine?

[kingu]

Seems like they should ask at the gate ‘Are you here to see Marx?’ Anyone who says yes, hit them up for a ten pound note. Anyone who says no charge them 3 pounds.

Then document how often Marxists lie.

[dfwgator]

[max americana]

“So do they just expect the people who maintain the grounds to do it for free?”

of course!To liberals, there is this magical tree called the US govt where money just spills for everyone...

[free-in-nyc]

"See the book, "Was Marx a Satanist?", by Richard Wurmbrand."

That's a good book.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Yea, Wurmbrand presents a great case for Marx as a Satan worshipper

[a fool in paradise]

His body doesn’t lie in state at the United Nations???