Posted on 11/07/2015 7:05:02 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
âWorkers of all lands unite,â reads the marble engraving atop Karl Marxâs grave in London. But if said workers were to congregate at the tomb of their advocate, theyâd 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 itâs not free to get in. âThere are no depths of irony, or bad taste, to which capitalists wonât sink if they think they can make money out of it,â whined one 24-year-old Marxist to The Wall Street Journal. Instead of paying, he chose to peer over a fence at Marxâs 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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So Karl was born and baptised a Lutheran but of Jewish descent with Jewish grandparents (his mother's father was a rabbi)
This Jewish heritage is the reason why 19th and 20th century anti-semitism colored communism as a Jewish plot
I don't see any way how his Jewish heritage influenced his political beliefs more than growing up in an industrialised nation except that Karl Marx was smart, brilliant even and that would be from Jewish heritage I believe -- but even the smartest people can act stupidly
Hey Commies, where is your god NOW?
How far did he have to pee over the fence???
For the first time ever, Karl Marx is earning his keep.
So here's my "flak": his solutions caused even more misery for even more people.
But I don't think that people are aware of how horrific things were for the regular person back then. Even if what I read was for a small minority of people, it was unjust.
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