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  • Karl Marx’s birth city sells ‘zero-euro’ bills for his 200th birthday [Trier, Germany]

    04/18/2018 8:56:59 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 20 replies
    TheLocal.de ^ | 18 April 2018 16:23 CEST+02:00 | DPA/The Local
    In Rheinland-Pfalz, Marx’s 200th birthday bash is bringing in a lot of capital. Whether the communist philosopher would have been down with this commerce is hard to say. Karl Marx was born on May 5th, 1818 in Trier, in what is now Rheinland-Palatinate. Many cities in the surrounding area are using the upcoming anniversary to gain big capital from multiple Marx-themed memorabilia, including a “zero-euro” bill introduced in March with the likeness of Karl Marx, who had a very distant relationship to money.The German thinker is known for being the father of modern Communism, with groundbreaking works such as Capital—A...