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Death to Capitalism? Visitors to Marx’s Grave Balk at Fee
Th Wall Street Journal ^
| 10/25/2015
| ALISTAIR MACDONALD and ESE ERHERIENE
Posted on 10/25/2015 7:10:08 PM PDT by Beave Meister
HIGHGATE CEMETERY, LONDONOn 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 wont 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 Marxs 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.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: capitalism; communism; communist; comrade; comrademarx; democrats; grave; highgatecemetery; karlmarx; liberals; london; marx; marxism; obama; socalist; socialism
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.
So do they just expect the people who maintain the grounds to do it for free?
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posted on
10/25/2015 7:17:30 PM PDT
by
dsrtsage
(One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
To: Beave Meister
I bet college campuses around the world would line up for that “honor”. :-P
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posted on
10/25/2015 7:18:09 PM PDT
by
M1903A1
("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
To: Beave Meister
I would pay to piss on the demon possessed Marx's grave.
See the book, "Was Marx a Satanist?", by Richard Wurmbrand
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posted on
10/25/2015 7:24:35 PM PDT
by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
To: Beave Meister
Well, then, dump ‘im in the Thames, then, wot?
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posted on
10/25/2015 7:35:49 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: dsrtsage
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.
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posted on
10/25/2015 7:41:20 PM PDT
by
vpintheak
(A Free Man! Death before disarmament!)
To: Jan_Sobieski
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?
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posted on
10/25/2015 7:42:04 PM PDT
by
Migraine
(Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU.)
To: Beave Meister
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.
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posted on
10/25/2015 7:46:40 PM PDT
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: Beave Meister
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posted on
10/25/2015 7:50:58 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dsrtsage
“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...
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posted on
10/25/2015 8:01:06 PM PDT
by
max americana
(fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
To: Jan_Sobieski
"See the book, "Was Marx a Satanist?", by Richard Wurmbrand."That's a good book.
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posted on
10/25/2015 8:56:50 PM PDT
by
free-in-nyc
(Freeping from the heart of the occupation)
To: free-in-nyc
Yea, Wurmbrand presents a great case for Marx as a Satan worshipper
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posted on
10/25/2015 10:33:59 PM PDT
by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
To: Beave Meister; Slings and Arrows; MeshugeMikey
His body doesn’t lie in state at the United Nations???
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posted on
10/25/2015 11:44:37 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Will Hillary's testimony on Benghazi be under oath? Baseball players were tried for perjury.)
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