Karl Marx's London grave vandalised in suspected hammer attack

The Guardian ^ | 05 Feb 2019 | Matthew Weaver

[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.

[Chode]

thx...

[Freeport]

Not quite far enough. That fucker is directly responsible for the murder of over 200 million people.

His bones should be dug up, burner, ground into dust and flung into the sea.

[otness_e]

Yeah, considering that people were taught all about the French Revolution and Reign of Terror, up to and including all the bloodshed, and Marx STILL aimed for reenacting that awful event and that, if anything, he wanted to INCREASE the amount of bloodshed, I’d prefer destroying the monument over leaving it to historic detritus, or using it as a teaching tool. Don’t believe me about Marx being inspired by the Reign of Terror, read these quotes:

“There is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.”-Marx, Karl, “The Victory of the Counterrevolution in Vienna”, Neue Rheinische Zeitung, November 1848.

“Once we are at the helm, we shall be obliged to reenact the year 1793…”-Marx-Engels Gesamt-Ausgabe, vol. vi pp 503–505, final issue of Neue Rheinische Zeitung, May 18, 1849. Quoted in Thomas G. West, Marx and Lenin, The Claremont Institute

“The vengeance of the people will break forth with such ferocity that not even the year 1793 enables us to envisage it.”-Marx-Engels Gesamt-Ausgabe, vol. vi pp 503–505, final issue of Neue Rheinische Zeitung, May 18, 1849. Quoted in Thomas G. West, Marx and Lenin, The Claremont Institute

Marx is if anything the type of guy who, even after learning from history, attempts to repeat it ANYWAYS, and make it even worse. If he was going to do that, so can others, which is EXACTLY why using him as a teaching tool is a mistake.