Posted on 11/07/2015 7:05:02 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
“Workers of all lands unite,†reads the marble engraving atop Karl Marx’s grave in London. But if said workers were to congregate at the tomb of their advocate, they’d have to part with some of their capital: It costs about $6 to enter the portion of Highgate Cemetery where he lies.
Some modern-day admirers of Marx who want to abolish private property are understandably upset that it’s not free to get in. “There are no depths of irony, or bad taste, to which capitalists won’t sink if they think they can make money out of it,†whined one 24-year-old Marxist to The Wall Street Journal. Instead of paying, he chose to peer over a fence at Marx’s imposing bust. (This is far from the most bitter reaction the grave has inspired: People have tried to blow it up, twice.)
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Proof there is a God and that he REALLY hates liberals.
He’s dead? I thought he was living in America for well over a century.
He posts on FR from time to time under different names. He’s been quite active lately.
Is Karl Marx black, or mulatto? Pics of him show him with dark skin. I don’t think tanning was a fad in the 1840s.
He is alive. He’s alive in every young adult who works at Walmart, and lives in their parents basement, and wants free $hit.
You know, irony can really be ironic,
I lived in Germany in the early 80s, his home town of Trier. The house is now a museum that charges to get in and sells Commie info and gifts. I laughed at the woman behind the counter and she asked me why I was laughing. I told her really? I then told her that it was the fact that you are being a capitalist!
Even in death, Marx has made money in the capitalist way. What an evil fool you were and continue to be, and suddenly you have proved your weltanschauung totally wrong again you evil dead fool. Despite that, we have to constantly fight this evil phiolsophy in everything we do. FU feckless fool on the hill.
6 bucks to take a crap in public. What a bahgin.
Well, you know, “From each according to his ability”. I guess they only want visitors who have the ability to pay to get in!
Now, normally I like an imposing bust as much as the next guy, but in this case I think I'll make an exception, so This Thread Is NOT Useless Without Pictures!
I thought he got a sex change and was going by The Won.
“Property”, can be many things. Being elected to high office is a form of property. Being named a judge for life is a form of property. Having a soapbox from which to speak louder than others (e.g. high profile news media, high profile entertainers, political pundits, etc.) is a form of property. More to the point, those forms of ‘property’ give those who hold them a much stronger ability to ‘maintain their place over laborers’ (i.e., the rest of us) than anyone making $1 million a year has. The left has a huge contingent of elites. Many of them have tons of money, but that's irrelevant. More relevant is that they have power, as their most precious property, and they guard that property with significant fervor.
London Labour and London Poor.
Henry Mayhew
The saving grace of that era is that though Marx was chased from Germany, Belgium and France. It was London that gave him political asylum. It did so for many others. Marx did not suggest anarchy in England itself. True he would have been severely dealt with, had he had done this.
Marx was shaped by the misery he saw about him. (Excuse my rant).
I read that book - it was quite an eye-opener.
The People of the Abyss.
Jack London. 1908.
American author London, bought second hand clothes and slummed it in the East End. He said he was a sailor down on his luck. He slammed the British Empire for it's rotten treatment of the poorer classes. With which I had to agree. Better things came with David Lloyd George and his old age pension and workman's compensation 1911.
He was ethnically of Jewish descent, which could account for the darker skin.
Even as a corpse he is shaking-down people for a buck.
Did not know that. Interesting.
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