Posted on 02/16/2019 6:22:49 PM PST by Textide
Karl Marx’s grave in Highgate Cemetery, London, has been defaced with anti-Communist graffiti, branding the dead thinker an “architect of genocide”.
Marx intellectual is memorialised with a huge stone plinth in the cemetery, crowned by a huge bust of his head.
An unidentified individual or individuals defaced the plinth with red spraypaint, reading “Memorial to Bolshevik Holocaust”, “66,000,000 DEAD”, “Architect of Genocide, terror + oppression, Mass Murder”, “Ideology of Starving”, and “Doctrine of HATE”.
The German Jewish intellectual played no direct role in the notoriously bloodstained communist revolutions and one-party regimes of the 20th century, dying in England in 1883 — but his writings are regarded by many as having given licence to the methods employed by his later acolytes.
For example, he wrote in 1849 that “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”, warning his opponents: “We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.” These words were taken very much to heart by Soviet leaders Vladimir Ulyanov (Vladimir Lenin), Lev Bronstein (Leon Trotsky), and Joseph Jugashvili (Joseph Stalin) when they implemented Marx’s plan for a “dictatorship of the proletariat” under a Communist “vanguard” in the former Russian Empire. The defacing is the second act of vandalism against Marx’s gravesite in a month, with Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust chief executive Ian Dungavell, having described the first attack on his monument, in which a plaque was damaged with a hammer, as “very upsetting”. Highgate Cemetery branded the latest incident “Senseless. Stupid. Ignorant.” on social media. “
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An unidentified individual or individuals defaced the plinth with red spraypaint, reading “Memorial to Bolshevik Holocaust”, “66,000,000 DEAD”, “Architect of Genocide, terror + oppression, Mass Murder”, “Ideology of Starving”, and “Doctrine of HATE”.
I would love to buy the culprit a drink.
to borrow from Yankee purists- the monument belongs in a museum in a dark forgotten place
Heh, defacing of monuments is a game that both sides can play.
I’d love to buy him another can of spray paint.
Marx was indeed an evil in the world. But, I dislike this. A sign in the grass or an actual live protest, I am fine with.
Just my upbringing, I guess.
But both sides will probably not be treated the same.
The artist would probably appreciate that more.
I’d spring for a can of Krylon.
I’m not much for defacing graves, but the guy is right. He probably underestimated the number though.
My heart bleeds for poor old skirt chaser and chronically unemployed debtor Karl. My heart bleeds.
I’d like to buy them a pint.
Why should Marx get a better grave than everybody else?
Wonder if they hire out .... would pay to have them piss on several graves.
Well, its the truth! So, he did not deface it. He corrected it!
“I’d love to buy him another can of spray paint.”
A can? Hell, I’ll buy him a case of spray paint.
Good.
I’d take a leak on it, but I’m not flying to England just to do so...
It’s about time.
“We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.”..
He was quite a tough guy, dying in safe England in the late 1800s.
Really on the front lines.
Freaking fraud.
He was German and Jewish.
Yet he didn’t have the foresight to see fascism and communism as utterly catastrophic for any country and the world.
Good!
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