[BBell]

Nothing surprises me. Juncker is a real piece of work.

The ChiComs are ecstatic I'm sure.

How much EU funds were used for this?

[Noumenon]

There go those pesky Junckers again...

[northislander]

Honoring an extreme ideologue who is responsible for the deaths of over 100 million innocent victims Yonker is a jackass

[Telepathic Intruder]

"many of the things he wrote down were redrafted into the opposite."

Total lie. Marxists like Lenin, Stalin, and Pol Pot were following Marx's ideals as closely as they could.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Karl Marx was a philosopher???

So he was just a philosophical guy, not one to foment unrest or revolutions,...............

And, they are saying his theories are so wonderful, they have been misinterpreted and misapplied by adherents of Marxism.

This is a pretty big dung heap to get our arms around.........

[MUDDOG]

Trier was the home of the king of the rats in Clemens Brentano's early 19th century Märchen.

Amazing foresight.

[WayneS]

Karl Marx had a second-rate mind and his “philosophy” is nothing but worthless pap for people who refuse to take responsibility for their own lives. He contributed nothing to humanity but hatred and diviseness.

[Gay State Conservative]

Next,he'll be opening an exhibition to Ronald Reagan.

Or maybe not.

[Billthedrill]

Politicians in Trier say they are not glorifying Marx...

Marx would have approved of the lie.

It completely escapes my understanding how ostensibly intelligent people can read Marx and not recognize that he was completely wrong about (1) the nature of the "industrial proletariat", a class that has ceased to exist as he described it; (2) the "progress" of history, which went steadily in a direction opposite from his "inevitable"; i.e. from class solidarity into nationalism before his very eyes; (3) his understanding of the underlying mechanisms of capitalism; (4) his insistence that true class identity was exclusively economic (the Frankfurt School plucked that one away from him and the result is "Cultural Marxism" which is neither cultured nor particularly Marxist); (5) the rise and triumph of Party under socialism and the complete failure of any state that ever tried it to "wither away".

That's just the high points. As a model of government Marxism is a retreat from democracy and a return to oligarchy, consistently and across every system that has ever adopted it. It glorifies the working man while it reduces him to penury. It promises plenty and delivers squalor. It deifies the will of the people while it is building walls and barbed wire fences to keep them prisoner. It is the worship of naked force, not justice.

And now the Euros have a nice giant statue to kowtow to. It serves them right, but their grandchildren will curse them.

[clearcarbon]

[IronJack]

"Today he stands for things, which he is not responsible for and which he didn't cause, because many of the things he wrote down were redrafted into the opposite."

By whom? Yes, the very socialist/communists Marx inspired!!!

You notice how it's never their fault?

[mosesdapoet]

Marx was the guy Fredrick the Great referenced with his quote “The best way I know how to punish a province is to allow it be ruled by a philosopher”

[Dick Bachert]

Speaking of which!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCSDQ66SUWQ&t=12s

[Svartalfiar]

Politicians in Trier say they are not glorifying Marx but say he was a significant figure in the town they encourage people to discuss his philosophies.

Was this a Google translate story or something? This sentence especially is missing commas, periods, words...

[Impy]

China gave a statue to be displayed in Trier.

It’s like the Anti-Statue of Liberty.

Farking disgusting. EU? More like PU. You’d think after Brexit they would want to cut down on crazy BS that encourages Euroscepticism, but no.

[Dick Bachert]

I believe it was Dr. Gary North who, years ago, coined a phrase to describe the activities of the Frankfurt and Fabian Socialists when he declared “When the socialists came to take over American, they sought to CAPTURE THE ROBES.” The judiciary, the academics, the clergy and others who then (or in earlier times) wore ROPES or similar vestments as symbols of their authority or station.
While they went for journalism (adult opinion molders - and Columbia, where the Frankfurt School agents landed in1935 - was a major target) they went after what used to be called “Normal Schools”, the colleges and universities specializing in TEACHING THE TEACHERS. They were spectacularly successful as every TEACHER sent forth carrying the Marxist virus infected THOUSANDS of young people in a decades long career. Can you say “exponential growth”?
They were wildly successful and we have a generations long fight on our hands - if fight we will - to turn them back.
And you have only to watch CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, etc. or read the NYT, WAPO, etc. to see the results in that arena.
Former FBI Agent (back when - putting aside a self-serving J. Edgar Hoover - the tops of such agencies had not yet been infiltrated with leftist traitors) Larry Grathwohl’s 2 1/2 minute testimony concerning the destination these Cultural Marxists have in mind is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2pMkkXIDrM&t=16s