Posted on 12/18/2024 12:22:48 PM PST by Loyalist
An £18,000,000 plan to redevelop Highgate Cemetery, the final resting places of Karl Marx and George Michael, has divided local residents.
The graves of Marx and Michael are among those currently ‘at risk’ of damage from falling ash trees, which have been decaying due to longstanding disease and drainage issues at the famous cemetery.
Ash dieback, a fungal disease that could eventually kill up to 80% of ash trees across the UK, has seen trees topple in the cemetery and forced many more to be cut down.
Marx’s grave is surrounded by ash trees, whereas George Michael’s burial spot lies on ground below ash trees higher up.
‘If a tree becomes infected and dies, there is only one way it will go and that is down,’ said Chief Executive of Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust Ian Dungavell.
‘Every one of those trees is at risk of ash dieback. So George’s grave, like every other grave in the vicinity of an ash tree, is potentially at risk.’
Dungavell said that the transformation plans, which were submitted to Camden Council for permission on Monday, were needed to ‘preserve this fantastic heritage asset, and make sure that it is a benefit to the community.
‘Karl Marx would be happy. Our charity is bringing people together to look after a community asset,’ he added.
‘The money is redistributed and looked after the whole cemetery for the public benefit.’
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If a tree falls on the grave of dead communists and Sodomites, and no one hears it, does it make a sound?
"If a tree becomes infected and dies, there is only one way it will go and that is down"
Was he a Marx brother?
“Say the magic word, win $100.”
“Groucho, Gummo, Minnie (mother), Zeppo, Sam (father), Chico, and Harpo.”
They’re both rotting in hell so I’m not concerned.
“...Some entertainer is considered a more significant historical figure than Karl Marx...?”
Indeed.
Love him or hate him, Marx is considered the third-most influential man, who ever lived, after Jesus and Muhammad.
Marx is easy. Just dig him up and throw in the nearest cesspool.
People urinating on his grave may have killed the trees
Yeah, I did not know Carl Marx was buried in London, but I wish I did because I’ve been in that city myself, and I’ve spent some evenings there with a pretty full bladder which I would’ve loved to of rectified on his headstone
Marx was a bigger POS though. His body ought to be dug up, put through a woodchipper, and tossed down the sewer for the misery he brought to untold millions with his toxic ideology.
The world would be a better place if when the name Marx was mentioned, people only thought of Groucho, Harpo and Chico. Get your tutti frutti ice cream!
Marx ponced off his friend Frederich Engels for years because he was too lazy to work to support himself, and even Engels was only wealthy because his dad owned factories in Manchester.
He also neglected his wife and kids and got his maid pregnant, and expressed views on race that the self confessed Marxist fanboys of BLM would find, er ‘problematic’.
He was an absolute dungheap of a man.
To be fair, the University he got that Ph.D. from was notorious for handing out Ph.D.s like candy, so it’s debatable how much of that was actually him being smart or not, at best.
A lot of 19th-century German dissertations were written in Latin--don't know about Karl's.
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