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Karl Marx's London grave vandalised in suspected hammer attack
The Guardian ^ | 05 Feb 2019 | Matthew Weaver

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Germany; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: communism; engels; genocide; hegel; highgatecemetery; karlmarx; london; marx; marxism; socialims; socialism
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To: wardaddy

Wow is that the best they could do for a bust? Looks like a giant benighted Ewok.


41 posted on 02/05/2019 10:36:33 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: rjsimmon

With just a bit of modification it could easily be turned into a — just deserved — urinal.

What’s the big deal?


42 posted on 02/05/2019 10:45:08 AM PST by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: trisham
Thank you for your kind remark.

George Orwell was determined to really find out how the working class really lived. He, low on funds, beat his way up to impoverished Northern England in the 1930's. His classic book was titled "The Road to Wigan Pier". It was a working jetty. A sarcastic remark made by persons when asked "where do you go for your holidays?"- Wigan Pier.

To his chagrin he noted that some of those who championed the cause of the poor got elected to council. The first thing they did when they got extra monies was to put lace curtains in their windows. Orwell wrote that they considered themselves now "middle class". He was not impressed.

Hope my rambles do get excused here.

43 posted on 02/05/2019 10:45:56 AM PST by Peter Libra
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To: Peter Libra

Here comes the new boss, same as the old boss.


44 posted on 02/05/2019 10:51:08 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: rjsimmon

Oh, those out of control hammers.


45 posted on 02/05/2019 10:53:41 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.S)
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To: rjsimmon
But alas, he lives on ...


46 posted on 02/05/2019 10:54:29 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: rjsimmon; All
Back in the 1960’s someone(s) covered the monument with red paint to make a statement that ‘Red’ meaning what Carlo Baby preached meant ‘Dead’ as in the tens of millions killed by communist and other ‘leftist’ genocidalists.
47 posted on 02/05/2019 11:03:31 AM PST by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: Peter Libra

My pleasure. I’m a fan of Orwell too.


48 posted on 02/05/2019 11:28:14 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: jalisco555

were it up to me his grave would be a public toilet in a refugee pre-deportation holding facility


49 posted on 02/05/2019 11:33:59 AM PST by thoughtomator (Nobody is coming to save the day)
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To: Slyfox

It’s time to hammer that wench before she does her damage.


50 posted on 02/05/2019 12:34:34 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: rjsimmon

This is fabulous! Hopefully we patriots can smash Marx’s ideological followers until they will never be the same! Rhetorically speaking, of course......cough*...*cough*...


51 posted on 02/05/2019 12:43:01 PM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday!!!)
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To: Fido969

Prolly called him bad names and strung a rope around his neck too!


52 posted on 02/05/2019 12:44:25 PM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday!!!)
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To: rjsimmon

Marx had plenty of marble he wasn’t using. Someone else needed that marble. Wouldn’t Marx have approved this redistribution of resources?


53 posted on 02/05/2019 3:10:34 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: rjsimmon
why is it buried in England?
54 posted on 02/05/2019 5:11:25 PM PST by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Chode

Because he lived there.


55 posted on 02/05/2019 5:12:02 PM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: rjsimmon

Do it again.

Harder.

L


56 posted on 02/05/2019 5:12:24 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Plan accordingly.)
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To: Peter Libra

“Human nature the same today, here and over there.”

Times change.

People don’t.

L


57 posted on 02/05/2019 5:14:28 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Plan accordingly.)
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To: marktwain

Were the vandals were eating pop sickles?

Was it an assault hammer?

Will M C Hammer be triggered over this?

Inquiring minds want to know.


58 posted on 02/05/2019 5:17:00 PM PST by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: jjotto

so Russia dint want their favorite son returned to the Rodina...


59 posted on 02/05/2019 5:29:08 PM PST by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Chode

Marx thought Russians were irredeemably backwards, and certainly never visited Russia. Spent the last 30+ years of his life in London.


60 posted on 02/05/2019 5:34:13 PM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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