Posted on 02/05/2019 9:21:53 AM PST by rjsimmon
Friends of Highgate Cemetery calls attack a ‘particularly inarticulate form of political comment’
The tomb of Karl Marx at London’s Highgate cemetery has been vandalised in a targeted attack that means the Grade I-listed monument will “never be the same again”.
The suspected vandal damaged a marble plaque which was taken from Marx’s original 1881 gravestone and incorporated into the 1954 monument.
Images of the defaced memorial, which attracts tens of thousands of visitors each year, show what appears to be damage done by a hammer to the lettering of Marx’s name and the marble on which it is mounted.
Ian Dungavell, the chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, condemned the attack as “an appalling thing to do” and a “particularly inarticulate form of political comment”, warning that the tomb would be permanently scarred.
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Hammer Time!!
Someone should pour 10,000 gallons of sulphuric acid over his grave, to wipe away any trace of that utter scumbag. How many people have been murdered because of his ideas, 100 million? More? Billions have been enslaved, and the utter misery that has been unleashed on the world because of HIM is incalculable.
Too bad that I couldn’t have done this - I would if I could.
To paraphrase from Marx, the “vandal” did it “from each according to his means”. :)
I remember last year, there were celebrations of the 200 year anniversary of Marx’s birth. As if Marx contributed so much to civilization and deserved to be honored as some great icon.
They just keep it in storage as "recovered property", last I heard.
Things I hate:
1. Malicious Destruction of property.
2. Socialism by all means.
3. Irony
The left needs to take note it’s an Oman.
A historical object that brought tourists to the cemetery. Marx was sought by authorities in his native Germany. He fled to Belgium, then France. Still he feared arrest. He arrived in London, England. Marx had said the proletariat (workers) would someday turn on their oppressors and rule.
Marx then said that Gt. Britain did not need a workers revolution. He said the parliamentary system guaranteed the workers could eventually rule. Sixty years later the Labour Government was given a mandate to rule 1945.Former working class persons were given high office. In 1951 the Conservatives were re elected.
As a working class person in England at the time, I remembered this. That the newly elected former workers then sent their offspring to the elite universities. They had promised to end tax payer funded Universities. They upgraded their residences. They gained entry to a circle of the formerly despised clubs and upper crust elite.
Human nature the same today, here and over there.
No sickle?
Please note the crybaby self-righteous trustee. “Appalling”, “no way to treat a (historical) monument”, “selfish”, “inarticulate...protest”.
Look, I’m a great proponent of burial sites. But there are limits. A few really don’t deserve @#$!. Should’ve been cremated so we can be done with it. At least Hitler ended up this way. Plus this had to be made into a “monument”.
Spit upon your grave.
If I had a hammer, I’d hammer in the morning...
Rimshot! Damn...had I known Marx was buried in London I would’ve watered the flowers when I use to hang there!
sad that it has been able to exist at all in the West.
Thank you for sharing your excellent perspective.
Generally, I don’t support smashing public memorials.....
sometimes I find myself making an exception
ba ha ha
A few years ago I did that photo to the new york times building in NYC and sent it around to all my friends, with much glee
A hammer? That’s it?
If there was any justice in this world, Marx’s corpse would be exhumed and put on display for abuse and mocking.
After a few years of abuse, then whatever remained of the bones would be loaded onto a rocket and launched into the sun.
Expect Nan to have his remains and whatever to be enshrined in the DNC headquarters.
Acknowledging the dark path Karl Marx created, it's still a bad path to support this sort of destruction as political statement. We're not very far from muslims blowing up Buddha statues at this point.
Leave the historic detritus where it lies, and use it as a teaching tool.
No pee pee?
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